Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. Example: All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues.
Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
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