Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Using or practising abuse; abusive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Full of abuse; abusive.
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- adjective rare Full of
abuse ;abusive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They laid the blame for most of the trouble upon the traders, who, "had been very abuseful to them of late."
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By their looks they had disapproved of their master's abuseful words to his sister, albeit with some reserve which I set down to their training.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Mirabeau's common sense, as well as his great and puissant genius, revolted against the absurd theories of the privileged: he overwhelmed them with his terrible eloquence, whilst adjuring them to renounce their abuseful and obsolete rights; he scared them by his forceful and striking hideousness.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830
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"_speckled-faced -- pretty large stomach man_, but was not very abuseful."
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