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ABUSIVE

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Main Entry: abusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exhibiting unkind behavior or words

Synonyms:

calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying, vituperative

Antonyms:

complimentary, kind, respectful
Main Entry: defamatory
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: libelous, slanderous

Synonyms:

abusive, calumnious, contumelious, denigrating, derogatory, detracting, detractive, disparaging, injurious, insulting, maligning, opprobrious, traducing, vilifying, vituperative

Antonyms:

approving, commending, complimentary, exalting, praising
Main Entry: foul
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: vulgar, offensive

Synonyms:

abusive, blasphemous, blue*, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul-mouthed, gross*, indecent, lewd, low, nasty, obscene, profane, raunchy, scatological, scurrilous, smutty

Antonyms:

clean, innocent, inoffensive, moral
Main Entry: injurious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hurtful

Synonyms:

abusive, adverse, bad, baneful, corrupting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, iniquitous, insulting, libeling, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noxious, opprobrious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, slanderous, unconducive, unhealthy, unjust, wrongful

Antonyms:

aiding, assisting, beneficial, constructive, curing, fixing, good, healing, helpful, mending, nice
Main Entry: insolent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bold, disrespectful

Synonyms:

abusive, arrogant, barefaced, brassy, brazen, breezy, contemptuous, contumelious, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, flip*, fresh, imperative, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insubordinate, insulting, magisterial, nervy, off-base, offensive, out-of-line, overbearing, peremptory, pert, procacious, put down, rude, sassy*, saucy*, smart, smart-alecky, uncivil, ungracious

Antonyms:

cowardly, humble, modest, polite, respectful, servile
Main Entry: nasty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad-tempered, mean

Synonyms:

abusive, annoying, beastly, critical, cruel, despicable, disagreeable, distasteful, evil, fierce, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, ornery, ruthless, sarcastic, sordid, spiteful, squalid, unkind, unpleasant, vicious, vile, wicked

Antonyms:

agreeable, friendly, happy, kind, pleasant
Main Entry: offensive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disrespectful, insulting; displeasing

Synonyms:

abhorrent, abusive, annoying, biting, cutting, detestable, disagreeable, discourteous, distasteful, dreadful, embarrassing, evil, foul, ghastly, grisly, gross, hideous, horrible, horrid, impertinent, insolent, invidious, irritating, nauseating, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, off-color, offending, opprobrious, outrageous, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rude, shocking, stinking, terrible, uncivil, unmannerly

Antonyms:

agreeable, kind, nice, pleasing, respectful
Main Entry: profane
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion

Synonyms:

abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty, temporal, transient, transitory, unconsecrated, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, vulgar, wicked, worldly

Antonyms:

clean, moral, sacred
Main Entry: rank
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obscene, vulgar

Synonyms:

abusive, atrocious, coarse, crass, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, indecent, nasty, outrageous, raunchy, scurrilous, shocking, smutty, wicked

Antonyms:

clean, moral
Main Entry: rude
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disrespectful, rough

Synonyms:

abrupt, abusive, bad-mannered, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, blunt, boorish, brusque, brutish, cheeky, churlish, coarse, crabbed, crude, curt, discourteous, graceless, gross, gruff, ignorant, illiterate, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, insulting, intrusive, loutish, low, obscene, offhand, peremptory, raw, savage, scurrilous, short, surly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wild

Antonyms:

kind, mannerly, nice, polite, respectful
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