Containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice.
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Examples for "abusive "
Examples for "abusive "
1 Four of those cases involved domestic violence victims fleeing their abusive partners.
2 Others also recommend having a code word to signal an abusive situation.
3 She described daily abusive text messages, and threatening and frightening phone calls.
4 Schools were closed, and children were sometimes quarantined with abusive family members.
5 Violent and abusive language, or language which describes the reality of abortion?
1 We present clear examples of the protective and injurious nature of NO.
2 Conclusions: More rational psychopharmacological treatments for severe self - injurious behaviour may become available.
3 Yes; the injudicious use of a blower is injurious to any boiler.
4 The impossibility of forming intimacies calculated to be injurious in after life.
5 This is depressing to the defender and is injurious to his morale.
1 There'd been nothing derogatory or recent under either personal or business files.
2 Asked if that was not derogatory language, he said it was not.
3 There is nothing derogatory to her in what you say-quite the reverse.
4 No truth can be derogatory to the presumed fountain of all truth.
5 The flock, with shrill, derogatory remarks, flew in an airline straight away.
1 It is defamatory and I will leave it at that, he said.
2 Lawyers for Sinn Féin contended that neither statement contained any defamatory content.
3 The movie contains many false and defamatory statements and scenes about me.
4 I mean, it's pretty defamatory stuff, Mr McGowan told reporters on Wednesday.
5 His attorney Marty Singer has dismissed the allegations as discredited and defamatory .
1 The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
2 He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
3 I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
4 Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
5 But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
1 Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous , appeared in print.
2 It isn't libelous if it's done as a joke without malice.
3 In other locales, perfectly accurate statements can be considered libelous .
4 Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous .
5 I wonder the curse of Gomorrah does not descend on this gossiping, libelous community.
1 Which puts the new Octavia Scout in somewhat of an invidious position.
2 His only approach to invidious comment was in regard to the terrapin.
3 There can be no invidious rivalry between the dead and the living.
4 The arrival of a visitor put an end to the invidious comparison.
5 They diffused the most invidious reports against Oxford and secretary St. John.
6 He relieved the sheriff, however, of his more onerous and invidious duties.
7 Shame is recognised by psychologists to be the most invidious social emotion.
8 Others react quite differently to the greater ego threat of invidious social comparisons.
9 The possession of wealth confers honour; it is an invidious distinction.
10 It should be banned, just like other forms of invidious discrimination.
11 At the same time, he is placed in an invidious position.
12 On occasion, therefore, the mobile phone has become an invidious part of life.
13 The idea is too gross and too invidious to be entertained.
14 What discrimination is, is a subtle and invidious combination of acceptance and rejection.
15 You generally want to avoid the two pitfalls of pastiche and invidious comparison.
16 Their position is invidious , awful, unjust, but they are not just passive victims.
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