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    abusive example sentences

    abusive


    1. to themselves that is so debilitating, abusive and unconscious


    2. This is how many abusive


    3. This is, again, one of the major signs of abusive relationships, where


    4. was mentally and verbally abusive


    5. Because she was still in this marriage with her abusive


    6. abusive adults and sometimes even cruel children


    7. There are Men who are cruel, heartless, unfair and abusive


    8. There are Women who are cruel, heartless, unfair and abusive


    9. things – an abusive and adulterous husband, and now


    10. In an abusive family,

    11. He was very abusive, so I took Vera and we both ran away


    12. If the landlords should, the greater part of them, be tempted to farm the whole of their own lands, the country (instead of sober and industrious tenants, who are bound by their own interest to cultivate as well as their capital and skill will allow them) would be filled with idle and profligate bailiffs, whose abusive management would soon degrade the cultivation, and reduce the annual produce of the land, to the diminution, not only of the revenue of their masters, but of the most important part of that of the whole society


    13. But when that didn't work, he attacked me for being too controlling, having unfair punishments and being abusive


    14. The same does not hold for humans, which is why the excuse that an abusive adult was abused as a young child will not do


    15. Pretty much as abusive as a tautology, either of which is the mark of the not very literate


    16. He must think they were in an abusive relationship


    17. We again have a police "service" shooting and killing rioters as ordered by abusive politicians—doing all sorts of things they should not do


    18. In theory, according to regulations, we were not allowed to do push-ups after that abusive intrusion into our arms, but clearly the sergeant (being so concerned with us that he had other things on his mind) sometimes forgot that minor point, and we then had dreadfully blue arms for a week


    19. I believe the confusion lies between Absolute Power and the (excessive) Abuse of Power (which need not be absolute in order to be abusive)


    20. He helped her when she was having trouble with her abusive ex-husband, she explained, and the affair ensued

    21. This punished with a sentence of up to twenty years imprisonment should any person “utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal…or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the military…or the flag


    22. It cumulated one night when, particularly drunk and abusive, he pulled a gun and commenced to menace Edgar


    23. Such abusive talk was Michael Henderson’s doing


    24. abusive treatment and near death condition


    25. A violent, abusive, hopeless situation was totally healed for about ten days straight, because the house became filled with angel beings who also hovered over the house and filled up our hearts


    26. resilience, and perseverance) that the cheating ex, the abusive


    27. It was to protect her friend, Caroline Steepleton, from a man Sylvia described as dangerously abusive and “guilty as sin


    28. Accepting as truth that greed wasn’t limited to a few corrupt dictators and abusive imperialists proved harder than accepting the failure of socialism itself


    29. leaving abusive situations and single fathers trying desperately to hold


    30. The conversations were always of the same tone, demanding, judgmental and abusive

    31. His messages were obnoxious, each one more abusive than the other


    32. It was another abusive message from Adam yelling and screaming about Keith coming to visit us in the summer


    33. If our folks or teachers are scared or angry or abusive people or just unable to create a safe environment for us, our assessment of danger is confused, and many things that are virtually safe are going to be listed by your young mind as dangerous


    34. He shook in distraught not wanting to give his only biological daughter to the arms of an abusive man


    35. Davis became very upset and verbally abusive


    36. Anger, vitriolic and abusive, is directed toward Lomborg particularly in regard to global warming


    37. You wouldn't know it by looking at her, but she is a tough cookie who can handle the bad attitudes and loud abusive behavior from the beligerant homeless


    38. When that abusive activity threatens the Christians directly, it is a different story, as punishment of some sort will occur


    39. They could not help but comment about Agustín’s total submission to his wife’s abusive orders


    40. angry and abusive, then sleepy

    41. “Phoebe is back with that abusive boyfriend of hers


    42. who defends her physically abusive husband out of love, philosophers will likewise come to the


    43. among a group of women who had abusive husbands and had that


    44. “Was he abusive?” Torin asks as he pulls his chair closer to hers


    45. the only time Lucy seemed to be aware of how abusive


    46. abusive employers or sexual exploiters represent the demand


    47. 4 And judgments and abusive talk and contentions and revenges and blood and passions and envy and hatred; And whatever things are like these shall go into condemnation when they are removed


    48. He believed that one of his more important duties was to serve as a buffer between the troops in the field and that combination of an intransigent and abusive Secretary of Defense and an equally domineering and dicta�torial President of the United States


    49. After we had become more familiar with each other, Candace told me she had been in several abusive male relationships and it was very difficult to consider having another


    50. She informed me that she did not want to go back to live with her daughter and her boyfriend because they are verbally and physically abusive to her














































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    Synonyms for "abusive"

    abusive opprobrious scurrilous offensive abhorrent detestable nasty hateful monstrous impertinent

    "abusive" definitions

    expressing offensive reproach


    characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment