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Example sentences for: abusive

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A 16-year-old Utah girl, who claims she escaped from an abusive father and an arranged marriage to her uncle (her 1st, his 15th), has drawn national attention to the issue this summer.
Reich portrays himself as the little guy standing up to a roomful of abusive capitalists--pure Hollywood.
The next man she married, Bob Gingrich, was not physically abusive, but he was cold and uncommunicative toward his stepchildren.
I was adopted and grew up in a very abusive home.
Is it really an abusive invasion of privacy for the law to insist that a governor not do that?