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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. |
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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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