[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abusive \abu"sive\, a. cf. f. abusif, fr. l. abusivus.
   1. wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
      1913 webster

            i am . . . necessitated to use the word parliament
            improperly, according to the abusive acceptation
            thereof.                              --fuller.
      1913 webster

   2. given to misusing; also, full of abuses. archaic "the
      abusive prerogatives of his see." --hallam.
      1913 webster

   3. practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting
      words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an
      abusive fellow.
      1913 webster

   4. containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse;
      vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "an abusive
      lampoon." --johnson.
      1913 webster

   5. tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. obs. "an
      abusive treaty." --bacon.
      1913 webster

   syn: reproachful; scurrilous; opprobrious; insolent;
        insulting; injurious; offensive; reviling.
        1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

abusive
     adj 1: expressing offensive reproach syn: insulting, opprobrious,
             scornful, scurrilous
     2: characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment;
        "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are
        abusive"
see also:
insulting opprobrious scornful scurrilous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

122 moby thesaurus words for "abusive":
   rabelaisian, atrocious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded,
   belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, bludgeoning,
   blustering, browbeating, brutal, bulldozing, bullying,
   calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, comminatory,
   condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, corrupt, crooked, cruel,
   cursing, damnatory, defamatory, degrading, denunciatory,
   deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive,
   derisory, derogative, derogatory, destructive, detractory, dirty,
   dishonest, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative,
   excommunicatory, execrating, execrative, execratory,
   fear-inspiring, filthy, foreboding, foul, fulminatory, harmful,
   hectoring, humiliating, hurtful, imminent, imprecatory, improper,
   incorrect, injurious, insolent, insulting, intimidating, invective,
   inveighing, judgmental, left-handed, libelous, lowering,
   maledictory, maligning, menacing, minacious, minatory, minimizing,
   misapplied, objurgatory, obscene, odious, offending, offensive,
   ominous, opprobrious, outrageous, pejorative, perverted, priggish,
   profane, raw, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ribald,
   ridiculing, risque, rude, scandalous, scatologic, scoffing,
   scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, smutty, terroristic,
   terrorizing, threatening, threatful, truculent, unspeakable, venal,
   vile, vilifying, vituperative, vulgar, wrong

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