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Abusive
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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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But even Caine's superbly persuasive mood swings, from craven vulnerability to unconscionable abusiveness and all the key points in between, get old after too much reprise.
A 'STATEMENT' OF FACT THAT'S FASCINATING, TEDIOUS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
My grandpa who died in January was an alcoholic and had a history of abusiveness.
The Violence of God: Dialogic Fragments by BLUMENTHAL, DAVID R. / Cross Currents
Abusiveness, in fact, seemed the default position.
Black and Blue by COATES, TA-NEHISI / Washington Monthly
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