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abusing
noun as in name calling
Strongest match
Weak match
- derogating
Example Sentences
Trump’s penchant for abusing allies and, as in his first term, withdrawing from multilateral pacts is likely to weaken such ties and so American power in the region.
Griffith is separately accused of abusing an unknown number of children in the state of New South Wales.
In the court filing, Porter said that Willis had been hospitalized twice since late 2022 on involuntary psychiatric holds and had a history of abusing prescription painkillers and other drugs.
But the Security Council - prompted by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan - refused to renew the exemption in June 2004, after pictures of US troops abusing Iraqi prisoners shocked the world.
"This court hopes that by the time the convict leaves prison, he would have learnt that abusing people in the name of getting content is bad," she said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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