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abusing

noun as in name calling

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  • derogating
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Foden was jailed for 17 years in July after sexually abusing four girls over a four-year period.

From BBC

That view was adopted by the Supreme Court in July when the 6-3 majority said Trump and other presidents are generally immune from criminal charges for abusing their official power.

“She was just the right mix of self-confident and self-doubting. She had the right editor in Vicky Wilson. She had the right boyfriend in Paul Ruscha. And she was on just the right amount of drugs. She was using coke but not abusing coke. It was the perfect storm, so she wrote the perfect book.”

In September, police spokesman Rusoke Kituuma warned that abusing the president, who he termed the "fountain of honour", was an offence.

From BBC

People in Thailand are accusing a high-profile television drama of potentially abusing animals after a cat was shown convulsing on the ground.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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