verbal abuse

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Also last month, Harvard women’s hockey coach Katey Stone announced her retirement months after The Boston Globe published a report detailing multiple instances of verbal abuse, hazing and pressure to return prematurely from injuries.

From Seattle Times

The verbal abuse these people hurl at one another is up there with "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

From Salon

The third alleged victim to testify said that Spacey, smelling strongly of alcohol, peppered him with a “machine-gun” torrent of crude verbal abuse before grabbing him by the crotch “like a cobra” backstage at a London theater during a charity event in the early 2000s.

From Washington Times

The third alleged victim to testify said that Spacey, smelling strongly of alcohol, peppered him with a “machine-gun” torrent of crude verbal abuse before grabbing him by the crotch “ like a cobra ” backstage at a London theater during a charity event in the early 2000s.

From Seattle Times

“We wouldn’t be there for any other reason. Trust me, the verbal abuse, the toxicity in the referee world … it’s a zero-sum world to a certain extent.”

From Los Angeles Times