Synonyms for abusive
əˈbyu sɪvabu·sive

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1. abusive

   Synonyms:
   insulting, insolent, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, vituperative, rude, denunciatory, scurrilous

   Antonyms:
   respectful, kind, panegyrical, laudatory, attentive

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1. abusive, opprobrious, scurrilousadjective

   expressing offensive reproach

   Synonyms:
   scurrilous, opprobrious, inglorious, shameful, disgraceful, black, ignominious

   Antonyms:
   harmless, unoffending, inoffensive

2. abusiveadjective

   characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment

   "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"

   Synonyms:
   opprobrious, scurrilous

   Antonyms:
   harmless, inoffensive, unoffending

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1. thersitical

   scurrilous; foulmouthed; grossly abusive.

   these he lists in language so richly thersitical that his english translator, likely herring himself, must have strained his vocabulary to its limits to do it justice.

   Submitted by anonymous on February 28, 2020  

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1. abusiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   reproachful, opprobrious, scurrilous, ribald, contumelious, vituperative, condemnatory, damnatory, invective, calumnious, denunciatory, insulting, insolent

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1. abusiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   reviling, scurrilous, opprobrious, reproachful, vituperative, insulting, rffensive, contumelious, outrageous

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1. List of paraphrases for "abusive":

   undue, improper, unfair, insulting, exploitative, vexatious, violent, abuse, arbitrary, offensive, extortionate

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1. Edmund Burke:

   The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

2. Eduardo Fauzi:

   That damn Christmas special was much more abusive than usual, if it werent for that point outside the curve, none of this would have ever happened. However, if they persist in doing atheistic preaching and deliberating humiliating Jesus Christ, surely other brave men will rise.

3. Courtesy Annahita Parsan:

   I was too scared to go home and the police came to the hospital to talk to me. Many people were helping me find a safe place to live, and I knew it was Jesus, and soon, the police called to tell me that they had uncovered a plot in which my abusive husband had planned to kidnap the children back to Iran. After that, we moved to Sweden, and the policeman told me that I have an angel on my shoulder.

4. Ted Cruz:

   Unfortunately, this abusive behavior seems to be part of the culture of the Trump campaign. Personal attacks, verbal attacks and now physical attacks have no place in politics or anywhere else in our society.

5. The US:

   Although designated an' alien unprivileged enemy belligerent,' not technically afforded the rights of The US citizens, the complete disregard for the foundational concepts upon which the Constitution was founded is an affront to American values and concepts of justice, mr. Khan was subject to physical and psychological abuse well beyond approved enhanced interrogation techniques, instead being closer to torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history.