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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61. She left an abusive relationship and departed the only community she had known.
62. Abusive lovers, self-deception and compulsive honesty create a droll litany over exquisite music.
63. As Sue Lees shows, the way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other in schools presents particular problems for teachers.
64. Her husband does not wonder very much about whether it is normal for him to be abusive, nor does she.
65. It came from a seminary friend who hand recently divorced her abusive husband.
66. Robin left home at 16 to get away from abusive parents.
67. Were you what we call an enabler-someone who really makes it possible for an abusive person to do their thing?
68. Telford, of Wheatley, Doncaster, was conditionally discharged by town magistrates after admitting threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour.
69. After several unwarranted and unreasonably abusive attacks in the press, Riva Palacio resigned on August 10, 1848.
70. What she experienced in her abusive marriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning the sanctity of marriage and personhood.
71. If he spoke, he would vent the most wicked and abusive language he had ever imagined, much less expressed.
72. The butcher chases them off the rock with kicks and abusive shouts, as though punishing them for bad behaviour.
73. The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue.
74. The father, be he absentee or abusive, gets off scot-free.
75. However, accumulating clinical evidence suggests that the single worst action a victim can take is to submit to an abusive partner.
76. Leaving the abusive marriage, or divorcing him, will be branded desertion or a sin, shifting the blame to her.
77. The father, so angered by the compulsory admission, became threatening and abusive to residential staff.
78. He was arrested for threatening behaviour and using abusive language.sentencedict.com/abusive.html
79. They tagged to our name various abusive epithets.
80. He was alleged to have used abusive language.
81. Shockingly, many companies are perpetuating past abusive practices.
82. His abusive actions rebounded on him to his disadvantage.
83. As love and power is united, abusive power ceases.
84. You will be better off without your abusive boyfriend.
85. You shouldn't put up with an abusive partner.
86. Denunciatory or abusive language; vituperation.
87. He became abusive , ie began uttering angry insults , curses, etc.
88. The man rounded on him with a torrent of abusive language.
89. A man has been given an asbo banning him from carrying felt tip pens in public after writing abusive comments about women in public lavatories and buses.
90. The other hero, and the series' salvation, is Lisbeth Salander, a young computer genius whose abusive childhood has left her a misanthropic nihilist.
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