Similar words: elusive, effusive, inclusive, intrusive, obtrusive, exclusive, exclusively, unobtrusive. Meaning: [-juːsɪv] adj. 1. expressing offensive reproach 2. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment.
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31. If you get an obscene or abusive phone call, don't say anything and hang up immediately!
32. Drunken football fans began directing a stream of abusive language at the policemen.
33. To present such a picture of a typical abusive marriage is misleading.
34. Women repeatedly return to abusive relationships hoping to resolve the conflict and thus to not see themselves or their marriages as failures.
35. But with them he could be violent, abusive, duplicitous, a Lothario of the highest order.
36. Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well.
37. The police say the two were drunk and abusive, and started throwing punches when asked for identification.
38. Smith was fined £500 for making foul and abusive comments to match officials.
39. Ginny, her dad was abusive, and her big brother used to beat her up.
40. She has been in an abusive marriage; he has been incarcerated for six years.
41. When Zeller sleepily answered that he had not ordered a pizza, the caller became abusive, screaming obscenities and making threats.
42. The legal rights of children are emphasized, as are the prosecution and punishment of negligent or abusive parents.
43. Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices.
44. For many battered women the unpredictable treachery of a deadly serpent is an apt characterization of the abusive actions of their husbands.
45. Lawhone and his wife, Mary, befriended the woman and helped her escape from an abusive husband.
46. They were two arrogant, powerful men, both supremely gifted and both twisted out of shape by abusive childhoods.
47. Social norms, social expectations, are not predicated on abusive childhoods.
48. Others have been evicted from abusive homes or left because their parents have no money,[www.Sentencedict.com] food or love to give them.
49. The goal of child protection services became safeguarding children while also working to reunite them with their abusive parents.
50. She then spent several years in and out of an abusive relationship with this man.
51. His abusive father routine earned him a spontaneous burst of applause, his voice booming to the rafters.
52. Abusive behavior starts in the heart of one person, but eventually the whole system is defiled.
53. He says she was abusive and accused him of abducting her child.
54. Abused women can gain new confidence when they realize they have political leverage against their abusive spouses.
55. Lynch and Weisz make a stellar pairing, while every bloke in it is either abusive, a sleazeball or a perv.
56. Ms. Aris was granted clemency after serving 10 years for killing her abusive husband.
57. Thus, a recent survey of the Metropolitan Police suggested that the culture of the police was pervaded by racially abusive talk.
58. Congress recently acted to deny trade preferences to countries that fail to meet their legal obligations to end such abusive child labor.
59. They called each other abusive names, which might have been alarming if I had not heard it all before.
60. Her gestures were emphatic but, from a distance, did not appear threatening or abusive.
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