Definition of Abusive

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Abusive

Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.

Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

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Abusive Quotations

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.
Natalie Portman

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
Janice Dickinson

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
Kevyn Aucoin

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
Missy Elliot

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
Lisa Snowdon

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
Tatum O'Neal

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.
Casey Affleck

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
Tatum O'Neal

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
Gloria Gaynor

Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on.
Jane Mayer

Abusive Translations

abusive in Dutch is krenkend, beledigend, grievend
abusive in French is injurieux
abusive in German is schimpflich
abusive in Italian is offensivo, insulto
abusive in Spanish is ultrajante, ultraje, abusivo

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