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abusive

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Adjective

  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.
  4. Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
  5. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
  6. Catachrestic.

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