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Sentence count:295+27Posted:2016-07-16Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: damageill-useinjuremistreatSimilar words: a bundle ofbushbusinesson businessbusinessmanMeaning: [ə'bjuːz]  n. 1. cruel or inhumane treatment 2. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt 3. improper or excessive use. v. 1. treat badly 2. change the inherent purpose or function of something 3. use foul or abusive language towards 4. use wrongly or improperly or excessively. 
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241) Demonstrators hurled abuse at councillors as they entered the council building in Glasgow.
242) They told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the scandal amounted to an abuse of power, not sexuality.
243) One is the difficulty of establishing a viable and nationally recognised definition of physical abuse.
244) There was a loud thud, and a torrent of abuse in an obscure Venusian dialect.
245) This type of physical abuse is limited to the more extreme forms of witchcraft and satanism.
246) There were the violent outbursts, way out of proportion to any wrong done, and constant verbal abuse.
247) Defence counsel William Carter said Gould had been campaigning against drug abuse within the jail.
248) Religion cannot protect itself from religious hypocrites, including priests who sexually abuse teenagers and altar boys. Dr T.P.Chia 
249) Similarly,(Sentencedict.com) reporting of domestic abuse doubled in the London area between 1991-92.
250) We have no reliable statistics on the extent of child abuse and neglect.
251) Rawlings worked out a procedure for network meetings similar to that used in a child abuse case conference.
252) His suspension was as lame as O. J. Simpson getting to do counseling over the telephone for domestic abuse.
253) This is enough, it would seem, to precipitate the verbal and physical abuse which follows.
254) Now he has called on other schools in the town to unite in a crusade against violence and drug abuse.
255) I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all.
256) Certainly the demand for obedience can be open to abuse.
257) The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse[sentencedict.com], she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
258) People were shouting abuse at the Prime Minister as he sped away in a large car.
259) In one fell swoop, the authors have denied the deeply traumatizing consequences of extreme verbal and emotional abuse.
260) No one should be subject to physical or mental abuse, by another human being.
261) She thought Mrs Magendanz had seen the old coot staggering around the house and screaming abuse at her.
262) Whilst the issue of alcohol abuse is quite properly a matter for concern, it should be seen in perspective.
263) Doctors believed that there was no evidence of abuse, despite the woman's claims.
264) It may be necessary to report back to management any concerns of mismanagement or potential abuse.
265) Researching the prevalence of elder abuse is notoriously difficult, and information on the abuse of black elders is non-existent.
266) J.-hungry media with snappy sound bites and an attention-grabbing stance on domestic abuse.
267) As we entered the building a white woman leaning from a balcony screamed a stream of abuse.
268) If you did, you risked verbal or physical abuse, derision and expulsion.
269) Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
270) It is not difficult to see how this approach lays itself open to abuse and drastic criticism.
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