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Abusively

Abusively \A*bu"sive*ly\, adv. In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.

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abusively

adv. In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language. (First attested in the mid 16th century.)(R:SOED5: page=11)

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abusively

adv. in an abusive manner; "he behaved abusively toward his children"

Usage examples of "abusively".

The image was gone as suddenly as it had materialized, but he was aware of Leck screaming abusively and tumbling off the windowsill, while he himself was falling off his chair.

The deaths of Kleist and of Kurt Cobain -- painfully honest as these acts may have been, beautiful protests against the tyranny of the real -- alas only ensured that their authors would continue to be abusively misunderstood.