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abusive

/uh-byoo-siv/US // əˈbyu sɪv //UK // (əˈbjuːsɪv) //

辱骂,谩骂,滥用,虐待

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : using, containing, or characterized by harshly or coarsely insulting language: an abusive author; abusive remarks.
    • : treating badly or injuriously; mistreating, especially physically: his abusive handling of the horse.
    • : wrongly used; corrupt: an abusive exercise of power.

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Examples

  • Unfortunately, some abusive users were beginning to use Send to distribute malware and as part of spear phishing attacks.

  • Across the United States, cities are experiencing turbulence and a rise in gun violence following the protests of abusive policing sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

  • Pender told NBC Washington in an interview that he initially had a consensual relationship with Grant and Grant became abusive after Pender ended the relationship.

  • Apart from this, Twitter authorities also informed about efforts being taken to automate the removal of abusive and manipulated posts.

  • So the implication is, you can make your kids stupider by being a bad parent, particularly if you’re abusive or something like that.

  • They witnessed and experienced the same types of abusive events, Fenner claims.

  • And so it goes, another chapter written in the mutually abusive relationship of bad government and bad culture.

  • That would put a real crimp in the dating seminars of a man who actively encourages abusive behavior toward women.

  • Julien Blanc says he can teach any man to bed women successfully thanks to easy—and very abusive—techniques.

  • But she was very abusive to the girls, with punishments ranging from being called ugly to getting beaten with a baseball bat.

  • He delivered to the Secretary of State a note abusive and impertinent beyond all example and all endurance.

  • One day Captain Bainbridge, of the Essex, was talked to in an abusive way, and said little back.

  • Pointing his musket first at one and then at another, he returned yell for yell, and was in fact abusive.

  • If you had not prevented him, that blackguard would have used abusive language to me and ranged himself on your side.

  • But his vehement and abusive style of declamation could not in debate be compared with the calm reasoning of Castlereagh.