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Tending to deceive; practicing abuse; prone to ill-treat by coarse, insulting words or harmful acts. Using ill treatment; injurious, improper, hurtful, offensive, reproachful. Using abusive language, even though offensive, is not criminal unless it amounts to fighting words that, by their very utterance, tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. abusive adjective detracting, insulting, maledictory, menacing, quarreling, reviling, threatening, ungracious Associated concepts: abusive language, abusive letter, abuuive manner See also: calumnious, contemptuous, hostile, impertinent, insolent, libelous, obloquy, offensive, outrageous, pejorative, phillipic, scurrilous, slander, vilification How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| You gain sympathy
for the one being taken advantage of inappropriately or abusively. The freedom in many homes is very often the freedom to
speak abusively to mates, children, siblings, or parents in ways we
would never speak to friends or fellow workers. Regrettably, the new rules proceed from an assumption
that taxpayers use cost sharing abusively to disguise the transfer of
intangible property outside the United States to an affiliate (often
located in a tax haven) at a value substantially less than the fair
market value of the intangible property. |
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