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How to pronounce “abusive”
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Pronunciation guide for abusive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of abusive with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue 17 minutes
that are helping to produce abusive men at pandemic rates?
- Definition summary
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. [First attested in the early 17th century.][3]
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How to pronounce abusive
Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue 17 minutes
that are helping to produce abusive men at pandemic rates?
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “abusive”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. [First attested in the early 17th century.][3]
- (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. [Attested only from the early to mid 17th century.][3]
- (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. [First attested in the late 16th century.][3]
- Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
- Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][3]
- (archaic) Catachrestic. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][3]
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