abusiveness
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Mr. Dirden speaks with a majestic orotundity that evokes a preacher carrying around an invisible pulpit, and exudes a preening pomposity and the requisite vicious abusiveness toward Lucky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025
“There is abusiveness, but we do have to provide disaster aid, and whether that’s for a hurricane or whether it’s for flooding, or whether that’s for wildfires, we’ve got to do that.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
These limits included issuing fines for abusiveness “only when there has been a lack of a good-faith effort to comply with the law,” which is, of course, ridiculous.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2021
That’s not because she doesn’t deserve to have friends or because she’s personally responsible for her son’s abusiveness.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2020
The palm for abusiveness was, however, carried off by Nicholls and Jekyll.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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