abusive
adjective
using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language.
abusively
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a word derived from
abusive.
Example Sentences
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That video circulated rapidly on TikTok and other social media, leading to rumors and allegations that Halili and Reitsma had behaved abusively to fans who had trusted in them as "ministers."
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
Among the proposals were better pay for stunt coordinators, being granted residuals from network reruns and high-budget streaming shows, and overtime or rest between work days “to address abusively long hours on set.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
The industry group, which called Miller High Life “beer cans abusively bearing the designation Champagne” in the title of a press release, paid for the termination of the beer cans.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
It doesn’t sound like your boyfriend is behaving cruelly or abusively, and I hope you can remind yourself that you’re neither a doormat nor somehow to blame for his distance.
From Slate ● May 4, 2020
We know men who have what may be styled, and what sometimes is abusively styled, a double life.
From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Alfred H. Lloyd
