abusively

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17
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20
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/əˈbjuː.sɪv.li/
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/əˈbjuː.sɪv.li/ · /əˈbju.sɪv.li/(US)

Definition of abusively

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
    “Christ therfore mentions not here what Moses and the Law intended: for good men might know that by many other rules: and the scornfull Pharises were not fit to be told, untill they could imploy that knowledge they had, lesse abusively.”
    “Whatever signs, shows, or gestures we shall make, or whatever our behaviour, carriage, or demeanour shall happen to be in their view and presence, they will interpret the whole in reference to the act of androgynation and the culbutizing exercise, by which means we shall be abusively disappointed of our designs, in regard that she will take all our signs for nothing else but tokens and representations of our desire to entice her unto the lists of a Cyprian combat or catsenconny skirmish.”
    “the engineer, who had not expected to sail so soon, was terribly and abusively drunk. Every moment he could spare from his engines he thrust the upper part of his body through the small hatchway and rowed with his commander.”

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Etymology

From abusive + -ly.

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