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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Derisive; insulting; vulgar; as, abusive language.

2. (a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.

3. (a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

4. (a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

5. (a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

Greek

3060. loidoros -- abusive, subst. railer
... loidoros. 3061 . abusive, subst. ... Cognate: 3060 -- reproach (reviling); used of
another's reputation by denigrating, abusive insults (, 4:293). See 3058 (). ...
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148. aischrologia -- abusive language
... abusive language. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: aischrologia Phonetic
Spelling: (ahee-skhrol-og-ee'-ah) Short Definition: filthy speech ...
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988. blasphemia -- slander
... slander. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: blasphemia Phonetic Spelling:
(blas-fay-me'-ah) Short Definition: abusive or scurrilous language ...
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987. blasphemeo -- to slander, hence to speak lightly or profanely ...
... Phonetic Spelling: (blas-fay-meh'-o) Short Definition: I speak evil against, blaspheme
Definition: I speak evil against, blaspheme, use abusive or scurrilous ...
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3570. nuni -- now
... Col 3:8: "But (3570 ) you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice,
slander, and abusive speech from your mouth" (). 3570 ...
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486. antiloidoreo -- to revile in turn
... 486 (from 3060 , "revile" and 473 , "corresponding") -- properly, to abusive insults;
reproach, denigrate; detract from someone's honor (reputation). ...
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Library

Cease in Your Ignorance to Receive Such Great Deeds with Abusive ...
... Book I. 53 Cease in your ignorance to receive such great deeds with abusive
language� Cease in your ignorance to receive such ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/53 cease in your ignorance.htm

We must Guard Also against a visible Enemy when He Incites us by ...
... For if thou art silent, men will say: "That man has been abusive, but this one held
him in contempt." If thou return the abuse, they will say: "Both have been ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter v we must guard.htm

Mary in the House of Caiphas.
... closely veiled; but the sobs which they could not restrain made many who passed
by observe them, and their feelings were harrowed by the abusive epithets they ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter xi mary in the.htm

Acts xvii. 32-34, xviii. 1
... So that we are those who share with Him, not ye. For to endure when insulted is
God's part: to be merely abusive, is the part of the devil. See the two sides. ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxxix acts xvii 32-34.htm

Acts xiv. 14, 15
... The abusive man is filthier than the dog that returneth to its own vomit. ... So also
do these. For what is more stinking than the words which abusive men utter? ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxxi acts xiv 14.htm

Acts vi. 8
... Does thy wife abuse thee? Do not thou become a woman: to be abusive is womanly:
it is a disease of the soul, an inferiority. Think ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xv acts vi 8.htm

Significant Phrases
... invasion and aggression. invective and innuendo [invective = abusive language]. ... noisy
and scurrilous [scurrilous = vulgar, coarse, abusive language]. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section ii significant phrases.htm

The Preface.
... If by way such a reply he means a reply without abusive raising terms, or invoking
the aids of the civil magistrate, I have done it in that way. ...
/.../lardner/a vindication of three of our blessed saviours miracles/the preface.htm

Literary Expressions
... A curious vexation fretted her. A daily avalanche of vituperation [vituperation =
harshly abusive language]. A dandified, pretty-boy-looking sort of figure. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section vii literary expressions.htm

The Goobbe Circuit Given Up.
... As he was going along one of the principal streets some of the `lewd fellows of
the baser sort' were most insulting and abusive; and a few shopkeepers joined ...
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Thesaurus

Abusive (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Derisive; insulting; vulgar; as, abusive
language. ... Multi-Version Concordance Abusive (7 Occurrences). ...
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Abusively (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive
language. Multi-Version Concordance Abusively (3 Occurrences). ...
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Greed (19 Occurrences)
... that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he
was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or ...
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Greedy (24 Occurrences)
... that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he
was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or ...
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Avaricious (3 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be
fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious ...
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Addicted (9 Occurrences)
... that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he
was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or ...
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Gain (142 Occurrences)
... that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he
was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or ...
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Harsh (20 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) disagreeable to the ear. 5. (a.) Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities;
austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough. ...
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Villainy (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Abusive, reproachful language; discourteous speech; foul talk. 3.
(n.) The act of a villain; a deed of deep depravity; a crime. ...
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Opposing (13 Occurrences)
... Acts 18:6 But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes
by way of protest, and said to them, "Your ruin will be upon your own heads. ...
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Bible Concordance

Abusive (7 Occurrences)

Acts 18:6 But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, "Your ruin will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles."
(WEY NIV)

1 Corinthians 5:11 But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.
(WEY DBY)

1 Corinthians 6:10 nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.
(WEY DBY)

Colossians 3:8 But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips.
(See NAS)

2 Timothy 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
(See RSV NIV)

Jude 1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
(WEB WEY)

Jude 1:10 Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing, and in things which, like the brutes, they understand instinctively--in all these they corrupt themselves.
(WEY NIV)

Subtopics

Abusive Relationships

Related Terms

Abusively (3 Occurrences)

Greed (19 Occurrences)

Greedy (24 Occurrences)

Avaricious (3 Occurrences)

Addicted (9 Occurrences)