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Sentence example with the word 'abusive'
abusive
atrocious, brutal, crooked, derisory, execrating, imminent, libelous, offending, reviling, smutty, wrong
Definition
adj.
expressing offensive reproach
Last update: July 27, 2015
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She used
abusive
language in the party.
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He.d gone from being tormented by his own mother to the affection of an
abusive
father who regretted ever having him.
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The Rovers yelled, and indulged freely in coarse and
abusive
language, as they approached.
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He had his faults: he was irritable, dogmatic, and
abusive
in his controversial writings.
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After the women went, the man became violently
abusive
.
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You've always been as stuck up and
abusive
to me as you well could be.
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Father Burke, who had begun politely enough, became obstreperous and
abusive
.
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It was not quarrelsome or
abusive
or bullying--only earnest and forceful.
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[Illustration: COVER OF THE PAMPHLET FEROCIOUSLY ABUSIVE OF PRESIDENT WILSON.
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The Federalist newspapers, of course, had retaliated and had been just as
abusive
of the Republicans.
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Those rights were thought in the eighteenth century to be unnatural in themselves, and therefore
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