A rude expression intended to offend or hurt.
Expression, statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful.
Синонимы
Examples for "abuse "
Examples for "abuse "
1 All political parties accept there is a serious problem with alcohol abuse .
2 To Oprah's credit, she mentioned victims of abuse outside the entertainment industry.
3 If the alcohol abuse stops, then the physical health problems will stop.
4 Armed with information, children are better able to report abuse to you.
5 Government has also availed a number of avenues for victims of abuse .
1 This is a day of trouble and of discipline and of contumely .
2 Divine's terror had placed him beyond the reach of contumely or reproach.
3 He informed the chapter that he was greatly displeased with their contumely .
4 I saw him, the best of men, perishing amid contumely and disease.
5 To wear the uniform was to bring upon one contumely , often persecution.
1 Others noted, but with some sense of unfairness, the vilification of Lamarck.
2 Armytage and MacSween are being sued for racial vilification over the segment.
3 They had never before been confronted, however, by a concerted vilification campaign.
4 The Hawkes received death threats, letters of vilification and parcels of excrement.
5 And he did it all under the cruel pressure of racial vilification .
1 The man endued with wisdom and learning regards revilement as nectar.
2 I want his honor disgraced, and his corpse exposed to the public revilement he deserves.
3 The other said the like and they were occupied with contention and mutual revilement and talk.
4 There was singularly little revilement of the Spanish enemy and the bravery of the Spanish soldier and sailor was freely admitted.
5 Mahomet's personal magnetism had drawn him irresistibly to the religion he upheld so steadfastly, and in the face of revilement and danger.
1 Typical abuse in institutions includes verbal abuse and neglect of residents' needs.
2 It is a form of harassment that goes far beyond verbal abuse .
3 Video cameras for Hutt City Council officers to combat physical, verbal abuse .
4 On more then one occasion they have been met with verbal abuse .
5 A survey recorded more the incidents of physical and verbal abuse … Audio
A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect.
To put someone down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.
1 The military government has said it would pursue all royal insult cases.
2 So don't come here-tomy home - to insult me and question my work!
3 However, genetic factors may also modify the response to the environmental insult .
4 We said that's an insult , Geingob said as quoted by local media.
5 So it's a clear insult for the people of Afghanistan, Azizi said.
6 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the project was an insult .
7 I just knew they weren't good; an everyday insult meant to demean.
8 You push your family interests here at this table then insult us?'
9 The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed said it was an insult .
10 I'll insult him; drill a hole in him; my honour requires it.
11 The insulter did not insult ; the adorer outraged the object of adoration.
12 I did not want you to mistake this as an insult , however.
13 However, I cannot apologise for an intended insult where no intention existed.
14 Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult .
15 They went off as if they had received the last possible insult .
16 The poor woman understood the insult and resented it in her heart.
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