EGAVE

abusive

About 2.72 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me.
  2. adjective Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
  3. adjective Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
  4. adjective Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
  5. adjective Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
  6. adjective Catachrestic.

Similar words

insulting offensive scurrilous scornful opprobrious harmful outrageous maltreatment mistreatment pejorative

Often followed by

language and behavior or parents relationships to relationship husband

Word family

abusively abusiveness abusivenesses

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