All abusive synonyms
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A a adj abusive
- offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- insulting — giving or causing insult; characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, etc.
- rude — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
- censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- derisive — A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
- disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- insolent — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
- invective — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- libelous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- opprobrious — conveying or expressing opprobrium, as language or a speaker: opprobrious invectives.
- sarcastic — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
- scathing — bitterly severe, as a remark: a scathing review of the play.
- scolding — a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- scurrilous — grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- contumelious — rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
- reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- maligning — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- upbraiding — the act or words of a person who upbraids; severe reproof or censure: an upbraiding from one's superiors.
adjective abusive
- harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- unmannerly — not mannerly; impolite; discourteous; coarse.
- foul — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- obnoxious — highly objectionable or offensive; odious: obnoxious behavior.
- libellous — containing, constituting, or involving a libel; maliciously defamatory.
- violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
- cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- rough — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- scornful — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.