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Abusive is an English word with synonyms like insulting or opprobrious. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Abusive in a sentence

Abusive | Abusively

Abusive meaning

  1. Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
  2. Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
  3. Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.

Using Abusive

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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.
  • Useful related words include: insulting, opprobrious, scurrilous, offensive.
  • In the example corpus, abusive often appears in combinations such as: an abusive, abusive and, and abusive.

Context around Abusive

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Abusive

  • In this selection, "abusive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, demonstrably, verbally, physically, relationships, texts and behaviour stand out and add context to how "abusive" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a demonstrably abusive and unneeded and abusive men come. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "abusive" sits close to words such as averaging, carnival and cherry, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with abusive

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Abusive relationships are usually filled with other moments. (8 words)

Abusive men come from all economic classes, races, religions, and occupations. (11 words)

Adoption agencies and social workers exist to prevent exactly this sort of abusive situation. (14 words)

According to Everytown for Gun Safety, an average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner every month, and access to a gun makes it five times more likely that the abusive partner will kill his female victim. (41 words)

Just an example of how much regard they have for those with mental health needs, and another case of their continuing to invent bogus justifications to continue using demonstrably abusive and unneeded cells in a demonstrably abusive and unneeded prison. (40 words)

Among the few accurate things about Marilyn’s life that were depicted in was her challenging childhood; Marilyn’s mother Gladys was hospitalized for paranoid schizophrenia, and she was transferred as a ward of the state to several abusive households. (40 words)

Is it normal for a man to be verbally abusive and sometimes even physically abusive just to show he is the authority? (22 words)

Example sentences (20)

Is it normal for a man to be verbally abusive and sometimes even physically abusive just to show he is the authority?

Just an example of how much regard they have for those with mental health needs, and another case of their continuing to invent bogus justifications to continue using demonstrably abusive and unneeded cells in a demonstrably abusive and unneeded prison.

A brother of Irish teacher Enoch Burke has appeared before a judge charged with threatening and abusive behaviour following disturbances at a Court of Appeal hearing.

Abusive men come from all economic classes, races, religions, and occupations.

Abusive relationships are usually filled with other moments.

According to Everytown for Gun Safety, an average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner every month, and access to a gun makes it five times more likely that the abusive partner will kill his female victim.

According to locals, the abusive post on Shivaji maharaj was posted on social media on Monday late night and it became viral in no time.

Adoption agencies and social workers exist to prevent exactly this sort of abusive situation.

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AFP identified the participant in the photo as a middle-aged gay man in California who said in a Zoom interview that he was in "disbelief" when a concerned friend showed him one of the abusive posts.

After the district suspended that attacker for a week for fighting, other students sent the victim threatening and abusive texts and harassed her over social media.

Aiken specialized in representing women who were arrested on a charge of killing their partners in abusive relationships and, in 2002, wrote a primer for courts about how to handle complex evidence of domestic violence cases.

A jilted lover threatened to burn his former partner’s house down and spray-painted abusive words on it after they split up, a court heard.

A man admitted in court to sending abusive texts and emails to his ex-partner after being unable to see his child.

Among the few accurate things about Marilyn’s life that were depicted in was her challenging childhood; Marilyn’s mother Gladys was hospitalized for paranoid schizophrenia, and she was transferred as a ward of the state to several abusive households.

A MUM who went to prison for bludgeoning her abusive husband to death has opened up about finding love - by marrying his best friend.

An abusive Dixon gave away consecutive 50m penalties, leading to a Daniel Rich goal - the first of six majors for Brisbane in the quarter.

Andrew Green, 49, of High Hazles Drive, Huthwaite, was found guilty of: threatening/abusive insulting words/behaviour to cause harassment/alarm/distress.

And then she turned three, and it’s like being in an emotionally abusive relationship,” she said.

And while prevention is key, policing can still be an important part of the picture, particularly when abusive behavior occurs after users have taken their conversation off the app itself.

Another production source said Majors had made costumers cry on the set of 2022 war drama “,” calling the behavior “borderline abusive,” the magazine reported.

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Common combinations with abusive

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "abusive" in a sentence?
An example: "Is it normal for a man to be verbally abusive and sometimes even physically abusive just to show he is the authority?" This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "abusive" from authentic English texts.
What does "abusive" mean?
Abusive means: Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
What are synonyms of "abusive"?
Common synonyms of "abusive" include: insulting, opprobrious, scurrilous, offensive, harmful.
How many example sentences with "abusive" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "abusive", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.