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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abusive \A*bu"sive\, a. [Cf. F. abusif, fr. L. abusivus.]
     1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
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              I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament
              improperly, according to the abusive acceptation


              thereof.                              --Fuller.
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     2. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] "The
        abusive prerogatives of his see." --Hallam.
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     3. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting
        words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an
        abusive fellow.
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     4. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse;
        vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive
        lampoon." --Johnson.
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     5. Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] "An
        abusive treaty." --Bacon.
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     Syn: Reproachful; scurrilous; opprobrious; insolent;
          insulting; injurious; offensive; reviling.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abusive
       adj 1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: {insulting}, {opprobrious},
               {scornful}, {scurrilous}]
       2: characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment;
          "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are
          abusive"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  122 Moby Thesaurus words for "abusive":
     Rabelaisian, atrocious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded,
     belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, bludgeoning,
     blustering, browbeating, brutal, bulldozing, bullying,
     calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, comminatory,
     condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, corrupt, crooked, cruel,
     cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading, denunciatory,
     deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive,
     derisory, derogative, derogatory, destructive, detractory, dirty,
     dishonest, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative,
     excommunicatory, execrating, execrative, execratory,
     fear-inspiring, filthy, foreboding, foul, fulminatory, harmful,
     hectoring, humiliating, hurtful, imminent, imprecatory, improper,
     incorrect, injurious, insolent, insulting, intimidating, invective,
     inveighing, judgmental, left-handed, libelous, lowering,
     maledictory, maligning, menacing, minacious, minatory, minimizing,
     misapplied, objurgatory, obscene, odious, offending, offensive,
     ominous, opprobrious, outrageous, pejorative, perverted, priggish,
     profane, raw, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ribald,
     ridiculing, risque, rude, scandalous, scatologic, scoffing,
     scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smutty, terroristic,
     terrorizing, threatening, threatful, truculent, unspeakable, venal,
     vile, vilifying, vituperative, vulgar, wrong
  
  

















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