Abusively

//əˈbjuː.sɪv.li// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

    "Christ therfore mentions not here what Moses and the Law intended: for good men might know that by many other rules: and the scornfull Pharises were not fit to be told, untill they could imploy that knowledge they had, lesse abusively."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an abusive manner wordnet

Synonyms

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harshly

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"Christ therfore mentions not here what Moses and the Law intended: for good men might know that by many other rules: and the scornfull Pharises were not fit to be told, untill they could imploy that knowledge they had, lesse abusively."

Etymology

From abusive + -ly.

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