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Meanings of abuse word in English

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Usage of abuse word in English
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Design is a much- abused word and often used as a marketing tool.
The Irish Times
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Because it was romance, in the best sense of that much abused word.
Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
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Willard Mack says: 'Punch' is the most abused word I know.
Writing for Vaudeville
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And what means the so-much abused word Catholic if not inclusiveness?
The Agony of the Church (1917)
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Also, he comes to know the full meaning of that overused and abused word-service.
How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters...
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We have, at long last, a champion capable of stamping out overused and abused words.
The Irish Times
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A touching appreciation of the much abused word, Friends.
Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
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Love is the most abused word in history.
Quest for the well of souls
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Sir, - Love is a much abused word.
The Irish Times
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If great and legend are the most abused words in sport, then epic is not far behind.
The Guardian
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Probably the most abused word of all was "crisis".
The Irish Times
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These examinations are certainly, in the best sense of a much- abused word, the most democratic institution in Ireland.
The Irish Times
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And now we have reached the grandest-oh ,banaland abused word-ofChopin's compositions, the Fantaisie in F minor, op.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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I believe she is a lady in the truest sense of that much abused word, though she is doubtless unconventional.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
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Is there a more cruelly abused word right now than "challenge?" Time was it meant a call to account.
The Irish Times
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Genius is next to the last and most sacred word we know, next to God; and next to the most abused word.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")