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Example sentences for: abusive

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Reich portrays himself as the little guy standing up to a roomful of abusive capitalists--pure Hollywood.
Clinton craves the affection that his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and abused, fun-loving mother didn't provide him as a child.
By the way, the paper says it got its computer scoop when a civil liberties group (not identified by the paper), concerned about the project's potential for abusive intrusion, provided an NSC memo on the project.
an ugly episode" says Hume; "abusive," agrees Williams.
The presidency cannot be separated from politics, but the political uses of the presidency by the Clinton administration strike many people as abusive.