English-Spanish translations for abusive

• abusivo
  La Comisión también coincide plenamente con el informe de la Comisión ECON en que debe evitarse el litigio excesivo o abusivo. The Commission also fully agrees with the ECON Committee report, that excessive or abusive litigation must be avoided.
  Si queremos evitar el uso abusivo de las cifras de contabilidad hay que apoyar este informe. In order to avoid abusive use of accounting figures, it is necessary to support this report.

Definition of abusive

• Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
• Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
• Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
• Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse
• Catachrestic.

Examples

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

Related words

• abusiveness
• abusively
• abusive language
• abusive price