Meaning

• Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

  "All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me and my colleagues."

• Tending to deceive; fraudulent.

• Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.

• Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.

• Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.

• Catachrestic.