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Abuse meaning
Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. | Misuse; improper use; perversion. | A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
Example sentences (20)
These examples fall within five categories: verbal abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse and economic abuse.
But Benedict never admitted to any Vatican failure on abuse, and much to the dismay of victims, he never took action against bishops who ignored or covered up the abuse of their priests and moved known pedophiles around to abuse again.
Det Chief Insp Jo Lloyd, from the Met’s Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation team, said: “Our priority is to safeguard children at risk and pursue offenders who orchestrate this abuse through grooming and/or direct contact abuse.
AN ABUSE SURVIVORS’ group has raised concerns that people under investigation for child abuse, including child sexual abuse, could be allowed personally interview alleged victims, under new Tusla procedures.
Growing up, some people experience emotional, physical or sexual abuse, emotional or physical neglect, domestic abuse, parental separation or divorce, mental illness at home, substance abuse at home, or an incarcerated household member.
Survivors of clergy sex abuse on Wednesday demanded transparency, zero tolerance for abuse and accountability for religious superiors who cover up for rapists, setting a confrontational tone on the eve of Pope Francis' high-stakes abuse prevention summit.
The newspaper said the priests had lodged accusations of abuse of power, economic abuse and sexual abuse inside the seminary.
The total includes reported of neglect, child sexual abuse, physical abuse and mental abuse.
Part F of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 established the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse —known as the Shafer Commission after its chairman, Raymond P. Shafer —to study cannabis abuse in the United States.
Abuse is abuse and we have all seen the truth," it read.
A growing number of seniors are seeking legal help for elder abuse – in particular, financial abuse – with Legal Aid NSW lawyers recovering almost $1.9 million in clients’ funds.
At a Spurs game against Brighton in April there were two separate reports; one of ‘racial abuse towards Japanese players and the Jewish community’ and another of ‘racist, homophobic abuse heard by informant’.
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors looking into historical cases of sexual abuse by clergy in the Munich archdiocese say that they initially investigated the late Pope Benedict XVI on suspicion of being an accessory to abuse, but later dropped the probe.
Both their arrests quickly ensued, and earlier this month, Franke pleaded guilty to four second-degree counts of aggravated child abuse and agreed to testify against Hildebrandt - under the condition two of the abuse charges would be tossed.
But share the abuse online,” she added and stressed that the internet is also making child sexual abuse worse.
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday, February 10, 2023, listed what it considers abuse of the Naira, including money bouquets, as a form of naira abuse.
Contrary to substance abuse, which bonds with the brain and impairs behavior control due to neurotoxicity, non-substance abuse is more of a mentality.
Disturbingly, abuse specialists Rayden Solicitors have seen a 77% increase in visits involving financial abuse in the last two years.
Finding Our Voices mitigates the financial abuse, isolation, and stigma that are the main factors getting and keeping Maine women and children trapped in domestic abuse.
For most of his life, Richardson kept the abuse a secret, a common experience for survivors of sexual abuse.