abusivea‧bu‧sive /əˈbjuːsɪv/ adjective 
Examples
Smith denies using abusive language to the referee. He became abusive and his wife was injured in the struggle.—abusively adverb—abusiveness noun [uncountable]
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Drunken football fans began directing a stream of abusive language at the policemen.
- Robin left home at 16 to get away from abusive parents.
- Smith was fined £500 for making foul and abusive comments to match officials.
- The way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other presents particular problems for teachers.
- The woman became angry and abusive when she was not allowed into the hotel.
- Vince used abusive language to her and other staff members.
- After several unwarranted and unreasonably abusive attacks in the press, Riva Palacio resigned on August 10, 1848.
- Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices.
- An arranged marriage of eighteen years came to an end when her abusive husband was murdered in a brawl.
- President Clinton grew up in an abusive home.
- She has been in an abusive marriage; he has been incarcerated for six years.
- The legal rights of children are emphasized, as are the prosecution and punishment of negligent or abusive parents.
- The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue.
- They called each other abusive names, which might have been alarming if I had not heard it all before.
Longman Language Activatorlanguage or behaviour that insults someone► insulting
Collocations insulting remarks or behaviour are very rude and you feel offended by them: · She started making insulting comments about the size of my stomach.· I wasn't being deliberately insulting. I simply meant that more exercise would be good for you.· He was accused of using threatening or insulting behaviour and of assaulting a police officer.· I find his behaviour towards me extremely insulting.· Sexist language is very insulting to women.
► abusive very rude and using offensive language: · The woman became angry and abusive when she was not allowed into the hotel.· Smith was fined £500 for making foul and abusive comments to match officials.· Drunken football fans began directing a stream of abusive language at the policemen. · The way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other presents particular problems for teachers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► husband
using cruel words or physical violence: · An arranged marriage of eighteen years came to an end when her abusive husband was murdered in a brawl.· It came from a seminary friend who hand recently divorced her abusive husband.· After divorcing her abusive husband, she remarried.· Lawhone and his wife, Mary, befriended the woman and helped her escape from an abusive husband.
► language· The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue.· If he spoke, he would vent the most wicked and abusive language he had ever imagined, much less expressed.· As Sue Lees shows, the way pupils use sexually abusive language to insult each other in schools presents particular problems for teachers.· A neighbour's child had been breaking my constituent's windows, hurling abusive language and stealing property at will.
► relationship· She left an abusive relationship and departed the only community she had known.· She then spent several years in and out of an abusive relationship with this man.
Smith denies using abusive language to the referee. He became abusive and his wife was injured in the struggle.—abusively adverb—abusiveness noun [uncountable]