Synonymer

Uttal

  • RP:
    • IPA: /əˈbjuː.sɪv/
  • US:
    • IPA: /əˈbju.sɪv/
    • IPA: /əˈbju.zɪv/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
  2. (archaic) Catachrestic.
  3. (archaic) Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse.
  4. Prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
  5. (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
  6. (archaic) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
  7. (obsolete) Given to misusing.
  8. Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.

Exempel

  • I am ... necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. - Fuller
  • ...to begin in this vacation the foundation of a trifling subject which might shroud in his leaves the abusive enormities of these our times.
  • An abusive lampoon. - Samuel Johnson A dictionary of the English language
  • An abusive treaty. - Francis Bacon
  • The abusive prerogatives of his see. - Hallam

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore abusive
Superlativmost abusive

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