abusive

Adjective Satellite

• expressing offensive reproach
• characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
  • "abusive punishment"
  • "argued...that foster homes are abusive"

Adj

• Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
• Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
• Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
• Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
• Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
• Catachrestic.

Adjective

• Using something for a bad purpose; improper.

Examples

• All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.
• His abusive use of challenges slowed down the entire Words With Friends game.

Synonyms

opprobrious, scurrilous, berating, injurious, insolent, insulting, offensive, reproachful, reviling, vituperative

Antonyms

abuseless, nonabusive, unabusive

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