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Definition of Abusive
1. Adjective. Expressing offensive reproach.
2. Adjective. Characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment. "Argued...that foster homes are abusive"
Definition of Abusive
1. a. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
Definition of Abusive
1. Adjective. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied. ¹
2. Adjective. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an '''abusive''' author; an '''abusive''' fellow. ¹
3. Adjective. Being physically injurious. ¹
4. Adjective. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. ¹
5. Adjective. (context: obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abusive
1. characterized by wrong or improper use [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abusive
Literary usage of Abusive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"Personnel Needs Priorities for ensuring an adequate supply of trained personnel
to achieve the violence and abusive behavior objectives include the ..."
2. Audit Guide: Auditing & Investigating the Internal Control of Government by Stephen William Lipscomb (2004)
"Evaluating the adequacy of internal control designed to mitigate the risk of
fraudulent, improper, and abusive transactions, requires the auditor to gain an ..."
3. Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law by Society of Comparative Legislation, London (1900)
"abusive EXERCISE OF RIGHTS ACCORDING TO FRENCH LAW. ... abusive exercise has in
general been taken to mean unreasonable exercise— that is to say, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Although he was sometimes moved to great wrath he abstained from using abusive
words. Unlike his countrymen generally he was moderate in eating and drinking ..."
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