Synonyms for Abusive | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "abusive" (156 found)

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Closest matches (32)

atrocious back-biting backhand backhanded belittling bitchy blackening blameful blasphemous bludgeoning blustering browbeating brutal bulldozing bullying calumniatory calumnious catty censorious comminatory

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condemnatory contemptuous contumelious corrupt crooked cruel cursing damnatory defamatory degrading

Noun(1 words)

bashing

Adjective(1 words)

cruel

Strong matches (46)

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execratoryfear inspiringfear-inspiring filthy foreboding foul fulminatory harmful harsh hectoring humiliating hurtful imminent imprecatory improper incorrect injurious insolent insulting

Adjective(4 words)

derogatory harassing hateful insulting

Verb(2 words)

flamed hurled

Noun(1 words)

flaming

Related words (78)

intimidating invective inveighing judgmentalleft handedleft-handed libelous lowering maledictory maligning menacing minacious minatory minimizing misapplied nasty objurgatory obscene odious offending

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Noun(4 words)

mailbombing molesting victimizing vituperating

Verb(2 words)

maltreating mistreating

Adjective(10 words)

motherfucking offensive oppressive opprobriouspersonal calendarpredatory actionscurrilous threatening tyrannicalverbal attack

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries

demeaning conductharmful behaviorharmful contentharmful languagemaltreatmentpolicy violating content

More specific

6 entries

derogatory remarksemotional abuseharassing contenthate speechinsulting languagephysical abuse

Collocations

5 entries

abusive behaviorabusive languageabusive relationshipabusive remarksabusive supervision

Inflections

2 entries

more abusivemost abusive

Derivations

3 entries

abuse abusively abusiveness

similar

2 entries

harmful offensive

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I had never received such an abusive letter before.

Source: tatoeba (254778)

They used abusive language to her.

Source: tatoeba (307449)

Slanderous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, violent, abusive, insulting, threatening and harassing comments are not tolerated.

Source: tatoeba (1038052)

The purpose of antitrust law is to stop the abusive influence of the market by big companies.

Source: tatoeba (1832760)

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