People or actions that are hurtful or harmful are abusive. Being abusive is one of the worst things a parent or anyone else can do.
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
Adjective S.
characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
Adjective S.
expressing offensive reproach
a.
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
a.
Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
a.
Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting
words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
a.
Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse;
vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
a.
Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
Abusive
I am . . . necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof.2.
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
Usage Examples
When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
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Other Usage ExamplesI grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.