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Definition of abusive : 1. Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
2. Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
3. Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
4. Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
5. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

Synonyms:

crude, shameful, corrupt, attack, hateful, harmful, nurturance, ripe, scurrile, black, disgraceful, ingratiating, rude, monstrous, foul-mouthed, scurrilous, X-rated, awful, light-touch, inglorious, vituperatory, cruel, uncharitable, injurious, offensive, indulgent, exploitative, obscene, invective, brotherly, vituperative, blue, evil, attitude, opprobrious, inhuman, lenient, truculent, demeaning, pitiless, hard, brutal, ignominious, sadistic, conveyor belt, dirty, contumelious, vitriolic, unkind

contemptuous, sardonic, disparaging, satirical, scornful, antipathetic, deprecative, mocking, sarcastic, scoffing, jeering, flippant, ridiculing, derisive, disdainful, insulting

fighting, broiling, raging, outrageous, ferocious, brawling, tumultuous, intense, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, fierce, furious, frenzied, assaultive, savage

Usage examples:

• In reply to my remarks a member, by the name of B. F. Moore, from Tuolumne County, took occasion to make an abusive attack on me. - "Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State", Stephen Field; George C. Gorham.
• Some of them I intended to be dignified, some of them were abusive; in some I kept the cheque, but in most of them I sent it back; in one I enclosed it with the words, " you will find the cheque you were good enough to offer me;" that was the first I wrote, for I was quite incapable of even thanking him until the labours of the imposition which I had set myself began to tell upon me. - "Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate", Charles Turley.
• He said many harsh and abusive words 10 to the teacher, and even cursed him; but the only reply the teacher made was, " Friend, may the Lord have mercy on you." - "Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year", E.C. Hartwell.