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adj. Characterized by improper or wrongful use: abusive utilization of public funds.

adj. Using or containing insulting or coarse language: finally reprimanded the abusive colleague.

adj. Causing physical injury to another: abusive punishment.

adj. Relating to or practicing sexual abuse.

adj. Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.

adj. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

adj. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.

adj. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage

adj. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

adj. Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

Practising abuse; using harsh words or ill treatment: as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow. Characterized by or containing abuse; marked by contumely or ill use; harsh; ill-natured; injurious.

Marked by or full of abuses; corrupt: as, an abusive exercise of power.

Misleading, or tending to mislead; employed by misuse; improper.

Synonyms and Insolent, insultiug, offensive, scurrilous, ribald, reproachful, opprobrious, reviling.

adj. expressing offensive reproach

adj. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment

"Of the $4 trillion in alleged deficit reduction over 10 years, about half would be from tax increases, mostly on what he called "abusive tax shelters and tax havens" and families "sufficiently fortunate to be earning a million dollars a year.""

offensive    harmful   

praising    laudatory    flattering   

defamatory   

abusiveness    abusively   

reviling    insulting    scurrilous    offensive    opprobrious    insolent    injurious    reproachful    perverted    misapplied   

allusive    collusive    conclusive    conducive    elusive    exclusive    illusive    inclusive    inconclusive    intrusive   

disrespectful    obscene    unjust    insolent    inappropriate    offensive    unkind    spiteful    overbear    immoral