Crossword-Solution: ABUSIVE 7 letters, 154 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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

We have 154 clues for the answer “ABUSIVE”

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Coarsely insulting, as language 1 answer
Demeaning, as language 1 answer
Harshly insulting, as language 1 answer
Harshly scolding. 1 answer
Hurtful, as language 1 answer
Like a heckling crowd 1 answer
Like diatribe 1 answer
Like harsh language 1 answer
Like invective 1 answer
Like online flames 1 answer
Like some "#@&!" language 1 answer
Like some bad language 1 answer
Not at all nurturing 1 answer
Offensive and insulting 1 answer
Offensive, insulting 1 answer
Profanity-laced, say 1 answer
Tending to treat badly 1 answer
Using harsh words. 1 answer
Using insulting language 2 answers
Mistreating 4 answers
exploitative 6 answers
BIT OF INVECTIVE 10 answers
Unflattering 12 answers
incriminating 37 answers
prejudicial 38 answers
Poisonous 39 answers
damning 39 answers
Ungracious 42 answers
unneighbourly 42 answers
ruinous 43 answers
wrongful 45 answers
unenviable 46 answers
contradicting 47 answers
slighting 48 answers
unparliamentary 48 answers
Unappealing 49 answers
anathematising 49 answers
calumniating 49 answers
comminatory 49 answers
denunciatory 49 answers
fulminatory 49 answers
humiliating 49 answers
imprecatory 49 answers
libelling 49 answers
maledictory 49 answers
reviling 49 answers
shaming 49 answers
damnatory 50 answers
injuring 50 answers
wounding 50 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABUSIVE (5)

Abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's `Open DeskTop' product, a Motif-based graphical interface over their UNIX.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
And you will be greatly obliged if I will drop my absurd fashion of calling you "Enemy"? I will drop my absurd fashion of calling you Enemy just as soon as you drop your absurd fashion of getting angry and abusive and insulting the moment any little thing goes wrong.
Dear Enemy Jean Webster 1995
The fugitive, without stopping, turned his head and called out something evidently abusive or blasphemous.
The Forged Coupon and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1995
Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
Browbeating.] To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with ABUSIVE (3)

When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...
Rosamund Lupton Sister
From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator. And from seed to dust There is ONE soul above all others --That you must always show patience, respect, and trust And this woman is your mother. And when your soul departs your body And your deeds are weighed against the feather There is only one soul who can save yours And this woman is your mother. And when the heart of the universe Ask…
Suzy Kassem Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
Tiffany Madison
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WP, WSJ.

Used 23 times in crossword archives (1952–2020).