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Definition of abusive in English:

abusive

adjective əˈbjuːsɪv
  • 1Extremely offensive and insulting.

    the goalkeeper was sent off for using abusive language
    he became quite abusive and swore at her
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They say they have to put up with increased noise, foul and abusive language and a complete loss of privacy since the work was completed earlier this year.
    • He must also attend school and not use abusive, threatening, insulting or offensive language in public.
    • Individuals should not be allowed to run amok insulting and using abusive language against one another.
    • It should be borne in mind that words or behaviour may be annoying or rude without being necessarily abusive or insulting.
    • He could also be prosecuted for behaving anti-socially or using insulting or abusive, including homophobic, language.
    • The other victim came out and both girls shouted at them using extremely abusive language.
    • He also swore and used abusive language to the manager of Cullompton town hall market on the same day.
    • Mrs Walsh said the four men arrested for abusive language hurled insults at the police outside the pub after staff helped officers to clear the bar.
    • When chased by the teachers they just run through residents' gardens and if the residents complain they get the same foul and abusive language.
    • It is therefore of concern he admits to consuming a large amount of alcohol and to being extremely abusive to probation staff on release.
    • The order prevents him from harming or threatening anyone in the Mirfield area, using abusive or racist language or taking cars without consent.
    • She breached the order three times by swearing, screaming and using abusive language after a road accident.
    • Violence, offensive sexual gestures or behaviour, or threatening or abusive language could get patients barred.
    • Nobody who sees this film can point a finger at me for portraying violence, abusive language, or offensive scenes.
    • Magistrates heard he was extremely abusive to the police and was warned.
    • Their antics included shouting, abusive language and touching the bottom of a young air hostess, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
    • When you start to get abusive and insulting you have already lost the argument.
    • He was abusive and insulting to a policeman and as he was placed in a police vehicle, he kicked one officer in the chest.
    • He further pleaded to using threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour and with being intoxicated on the same date.
    • Residents complained the young people were using foul language, being abusive and playing ball games in the street into the early hours of the morning.
    Synonyms
    insulting, rude, vulgar, offensive, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, pejorative, vituperative
    disdainful, derisive, scornful, contemptuous
    defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous, blasphemous
    scolding, castigatory, reproving, reproachful
    informal bitchy
    archaic contumelious
  • 2Engaging in or characterized by habitual violence and cruelty.

    abusive parents
    an abusive relationship
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A friend of mine was a domestic violence crisis line counselor and wound up in an abusive relationship.
    • One of the main drives behind this campaign is to get proper services in place for women who want to escape from abusive relationships.
    • The gratuitous gossip included claims of domestic violence, adultery and abusive relationships.
    • Women's Aid did not know why more women in violent and abusive relationships were seeking their help.
    • I was in a particularly nasty marriage, a violent and abusive relationship that started the day after the wedding.
    • When partners become abusive, violence becomes regular; sometimes family members kill each other.
    • How do I know if I am in an unhealthy, abusive, or even violent relationship?
    • The refuge provides a haven for people fleeing violent or abusive relationships.
    • I think there is a similarity to the attitude of many abused children who blame themselves for the abusive actions of their parents.
    • For decades the prevailing theories tell us that the roots of violence lie in deprived environments and abusive parents.
    • She struggled through divorce, life as a single parent, abusive relationships and another rocky marriage.
    • Not that he was abusive, unkind or violent, he just expected more of her than she often felt she had to give.
    • A victim's decision to remain in an abusive relationship may be positively reinforced in several ways.
    • There is strong evidence for a link between abusive behaviour and violence in the family of origin.
    • Leaving an abusive relationship may be punished in a number of ways.
    • Those who attended including women who had been in abusive relationships and sought help through the Women Awake meetings.
    • Her e-mails revealed that she's been in an emotionally abusive relationship for about a year.
    • When women pluck up the courage to leave a violent or abusive relationship, they often find their abuser turns to the law, Tagg explained.
    • ‘The song is about women putting up with abusive relationships and not being able to leave,’ he says.
    • If you are abused as a child this definitely doesn't mean that you are going to end up in a violent or abusive relationship yourself.
    Synonyms
    cruel, brutal, savage, inhuman, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, vicious, sadistic
    ruthless, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, uncaring, heartless, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, unfeeling, unkind, inhumane
  • 3Involving injustice or illegality.

    the abusive and predatory practices of businesses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The previous day, an Athens court ruled that the strike was illegal and abusive.
    • Essentially, the challenge is to catch abusive practices without catching harmless practices, to boot.
    • Not that the oppressive, undemocratic, abusive and illegal proposals are to be binned.
    • The latest move to establish regional offices has created fears of a possible return to repressive and abusive practices.
    • Society increasingly perceives individuals to be passive victims of abusive and predatory corporations.
    • What they are not willing to do, however, is take part in what they view as an illegal and abusive occupation.
    • In fact, the NRA lent support to some of the most abusive criminal justice practices in effect today.
    • United Brands produced bananas, and was accused of a variety of abusive practices which were said to infringe Article 86.
    • When pickers went out on strike, abusive practices of foremen were usually a main source of complaint.
    • It was 1875 when the child labour laws cracked down on this abusive practice.
    • If anything, the police were trying to cover up their own abusive practices.
    • Democracy will struggle to take root if abusive police practices and corrupt judges flourish.

Derivatives

  • abusively

  • adverb əˈbjuːsɪvli
    • She says that while trying to give a statement to a female officer a male officer continually interrupted by entering the room, shouting abusively and verbally bullying her.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It followed an incident when James's sister, Vicky, was upset when abusively insulted.
      • Rather than considering whether a particular company is pricing abusively, the UK authorities have been able to examine whether prices in a given industry have been against ‘the public interest’.
      • On a site discussing technical issues, the worst anybody can expect is strong disagreement - even if it is posed impolitely, or abusively.
      • He then started to drag her across the road by her arm and her hair, while shouting abusively at her.
      • With regard to the former, I'm not convinced that everyone with access to potentially threatening information will refrain from using that information abusively, via blackmail, bigotry, red-lining and so forth.
      • I looked around the circle for support, but they all agreed, some abusively, that I should go.
      • A strip search will always be unreasonable if it is carried out abusively or for the purpose of humiliating or punishing the arrestee.
      • He doesn't seem to mind that to shout abusively at someone on a one-to-one basis, for no other reason than they disagree with what he's saying, is bad manners.
      • He continued shaking her abusively as he still yelled at her.
      • ‘Research shows that couples who fight quite a bit are happier five years later, as long as they are not fighting abusively,’ says Biddulph.
      • And many of them were treated horribly and abusively.
      • The pace is frenetic: women's heels click the sidewalks with conviction, mobile phones are spoken into earnestly, and cars honk their horns abusively.
      • What exactly is the etiquette of sitting next to someone on the train who is noisily and abusively breaking up with their boyfriend on a mobile phone?
      • Although students are not scolded for speaking Spanish or ridiculed abusively for using their bilingual resources, they tend to internalize the idea that speaking their native language is wrong.
      • Scilla begins by explaining that she wants to know how to be powerful in a way which enables her to respond effectively when she sees power being abused, and yet not use her own power abusively.
      • Trina, a smart, beautiful and sweet teenage daughter becomes abusively profane and violent; she is both tortured and the torturer.
      • In ‘Trudy,’ for example, a crowd of shoppers and passersby gathers to watch as an elderly white woman loudly and abusively accuses a black cashier of cheating her.
      • A husband shouts abusively at his wife after returning from work.
  • abusiveness

  • noun əˈbjuːsɪvnəs
    • Basically, the best I can do to explain Taylor's reaction to his father's abusiveness is that his father really did used to be a caring individual, and treat him well.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There's no doubt that email can bring out the abusiveness and obnoxiousness in some people, but it's still useful to know how people feel.
      • The students took their charge seriously, suggesting rules such as: ‘No violence or abusiveness - either physical or verbal’ and ‘Come to class on time and prepared.’
      • Researchers have long debated the impact of perceived power between partners as a precipitating factor in intimate abusiveness.
      • Isn't it more likely that the cause of Larry's behavior was his father's abusiveness and had nothing, or at the most, very little, to do with divorce itself?
      • I've had a policy of not editing comments of others, regardless of abusiveness.
      • When you know you've done absolutely everything in your power to make the client happy, only to have the situation turn ugly, it's important not to take the client's disrespect or abusiveness on as your responsibility or fault.
      • Counselors in this area report that the most successful groups are the ones in which the men come to challenge one another about their abusiveness.
      • Sharon said that Linda is verbally abusive and her abusiveness reminds her of her father, whom Linda is closer to than Sharon.
      • He contemplated whether to endure Curt's verbal abusiveness or silently return to his room.
      • Due to his unruly behaviour, which included rudeness and abusiveness, the management was forced to ban him from using these facilities.
      • The wince factor is high as Florence, always the masochist, flees from what little salvation is on offer for encounters of escalating abusiveness.
      • But leftists made what progress they did by demanding that the nation live up to its stated principles, rather than dismissing them as fatally compromised by the racism of the founders or the abusiveness of flag-waving vigilantes.
      • As in previous research, for the purpose of data analyses, subjects were dichotomized in terms of intimate abusiveness and level of distress in their current relationship.
      • But his stridency and his abusiveness, particularly of the pathetic Miss Taboo, brings him perilously close to being just another cartoonish Evil Queen.
      • Read the postings without benefit of rebuttals and one is astonished at the level of casual cruelty and abusiveness visited on innocent youth.
      • They often think their outbursts and abusiveness are entirely justified.
      • But a flood of news items since the report's release in late May show that the government's actions do not reflect an anomalous period of abusiveness.
      • The inherent abusiveness of our capitalistic, unloving, unaccepting society revisits itself in the family, producing narcissistically wounded individuals.
      • After a long, unpleasant legal battle, in which allegations of infidelity and abusiveness were raised, the parents split custody.

Rhymes

allusive, collusive, conclusive, conducive, delusive, diffusive, effusive, elusive, exclusive, illusive, inclusive, intrusive, obtrusive, preclusive, reclusive, seclusive
 
 

Definition of abusive in US English:

abusive

adjective
  • 1Extremely offensive and insulting.

    he became quite abusive and swore at her
    abusive language
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mrs Walsh said the four men arrested for abusive language hurled insults at the police outside the pub after staff helped officers to clear the bar.
    • The order prevents him from harming or threatening anyone in the Mirfield area, using abusive or racist language or taking cars without consent.
    • It should be borne in mind that words or behaviour may be annoying or rude without being necessarily abusive or insulting.
    • He was abusive and insulting to a policeman and as he was placed in a police vehicle, he kicked one officer in the chest.
    • Individuals should not be allowed to run amok insulting and using abusive language against one another.
    • He could also be prosecuted for behaving anti-socially or using insulting or abusive, including homophobic, language.
    • Residents complained the young people were using foul language, being abusive and playing ball games in the street into the early hours of the morning.
    • They say they have to put up with increased noise, foul and abusive language and a complete loss of privacy since the work was completed earlier this year.
    • He further pleaded to using threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour and with being intoxicated on the same date.
    • He also swore and used abusive language to the manager of Cullompton town hall market on the same day.
    • He must also attend school and not use abusive, threatening, insulting or offensive language in public.
    • Nobody who sees this film can point a finger at me for portraying violence, abusive language, or offensive scenes.
    • Magistrates heard he was extremely abusive to the police and was warned.
    • It is therefore of concern he admits to consuming a large amount of alcohol and to being extremely abusive to probation staff on release.
    • The other victim came out and both girls shouted at them using extremely abusive language.
    • Violence, offensive sexual gestures or behaviour, or threatening or abusive language could get patients barred.
    • She breached the order three times by swearing, screaming and using abusive language after a road accident.
    • When you start to get abusive and insulting you have already lost the argument.
    • Their antics included shouting, abusive language and touching the bottom of a young air hostess, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
    • When chased by the teachers they just run through residents' gardens and if the residents complain they get the same foul and abusive language.
    Synonyms
    insulting, rude, vulgar, offensive, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, pejorative, vituperative
  • 2Engaging in or characterized by habitual violence and cruelty.

    abusive parents
    an abusive relationship
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I think there is a similarity to the attitude of many abused children who blame themselves for the abusive actions of their parents.
    • When women pluck up the courage to leave a violent or abusive relationship, they often find their abuser turns to the law, Tagg explained.
    • For decades the prevailing theories tell us that the roots of violence lie in deprived environments and abusive parents.
    • If you are abused as a child this definitely doesn't mean that you are going to end up in a violent or abusive relationship yourself.
    • The gratuitous gossip included claims of domestic violence, adultery and abusive relationships.
    • Her e-mails revealed that she's been in an emotionally abusive relationship for about a year.
    • Leaving an abusive relationship may be punished in a number of ways.
    • How do I know if I am in an unhealthy, abusive, or even violent relationship?
    • She struggled through divorce, life as a single parent, abusive relationships and another rocky marriage.
    • A friend of mine was a domestic violence crisis line counselor and wound up in an abusive relationship.
    • A victim's decision to remain in an abusive relationship may be positively reinforced in several ways.
    • One of the main drives behind this campaign is to get proper services in place for women who want to escape from abusive relationships.
    • Not that he was abusive, unkind or violent, he just expected more of her than she often felt she had to give.
    • Those who attended including women who had been in abusive relationships and sought help through the Women Awake meetings.
    • The refuge provides a haven for people fleeing violent or abusive relationships.
    • ‘The song is about women putting up with abusive relationships and not being able to leave,’ he says.
    • Women's Aid did not know why more women in violent and abusive relationships were seeking their help.
    • I was in a particularly nasty marriage, a violent and abusive relationship that started the day after the wedding.
    • When partners become abusive, violence becomes regular; sometimes family members kill each other.
    • There is strong evidence for a link between abusive behaviour and violence in the family of origin.
    Synonyms
    cruel, brutal, savage, inhuman, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, vicious, sadistic
  • 3Involving injustice or illegality.

    the abusive and predatory practices of businesses
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When pickers went out on strike, abusive practices of foremen were usually a main source of complaint.
    • The previous day, an Athens court ruled that the strike was illegal and abusive.
    • United Brands produced bananas, and was accused of a variety of abusive practices which were said to infringe Article 86.
    • Essentially, the challenge is to catch abusive practices without catching harmless practices, to boot.
    • Society increasingly perceives individuals to be passive victims of abusive and predatory corporations.
    • In fact, the NRA lent support to some of the most abusive criminal justice practices in effect today.
    • Not that the oppressive, undemocratic, abusive and illegal proposals are to be binned.
    • Democracy will struggle to take root if abusive police practices and corrupt judges flourish.
    • If anything, the police were trying to cover up their own abusive practices.
    • It was 1875 when the child labour laws cracked down on this abusive practice.
    • What they are not willing to do, however, is take part in what they view as an illegal and abusive occupation.
    • The latest move to establish regional offices has created fears of a possible return to repressive and abusive practices.
 
 
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