Takes advantage of

Usage examples of abuses.

He hath made many fruitless attempts to regain the confidence of Allworthy, or to ingratiate himself with Jones, both of whom he flatters to their faces, and abuses behind their backs.

No Californian gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East.

We must put a stop to the abuses of the Daschles and any others who thumb their nose at the American people and the rule of law and decency.

To prevent therefore, for the future, such intemperate abuses of leisure, of letters, and of the liberty of the press, especially as the world seems at present to be more than usually threatened with them, I shall here venture to mention some qualifications, every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians.

Progressives fight it intelligently and seek to remedy the abuses and conditions upon which it thrives.

You are part of the social system that they say oppresses and abuses Turd World nations.