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He picked up the phone at his side and dialed abusively.
"And the fact is we're all capable of acting abusively."
She speaks abusively to all of those who have been attempting her rescue.
But it was not until he shouted abusively at officials in the local housing office that Birmingham took action.
In the early years after its construction, the complex was abusively occupied by homeless families.
He would speak abusively to his parents and walk through the neighborhood shouting obscenities.
A company in a dominant position which charges excessive prices for its products may be acting abusively.
"That is no excuse for speaking abusively," she said.
Young men in cars were particularly aggressive - they lowered their windows and shouted abusively.
They said he often acted abusively toward subordinates, even throwing things at some who had angered him.
They are shouting at us angrily, abusively - they seem a little drunk.
Through the fish-eye lens he could just see a man standing over the figure of a woman, yelling at her abusively.
In the course of the investigation, seven other students came forward with charges that he had acted maliciously and abusively toward them as well.
The term can be used approvingly or abusively.
It is the desire to treat others abusively (40b) without having kind feelings towards living beings.
The administration has argued that even if the powers it is seizing are broad, it will not use them abusively.
Bonnie learns to leave an abusively jealous boyfriend.
Anecdotal evidence has also been mounting that college women are drinking more often and more abusively for a variety of reasons.
How did this old codger dare to talk so abusively about the Arkonides?
I was often slapped around, kicked, abusively spanked for the simplest and most meaningless flaws.
Supervisors still speak abusively to workers, Mr. Bush said.
He glanced speculatively at Phoebe who wanted to yell at him abusively.
Passersby refuse to take the child from the mother, a policeman behaves abusively and the infant dies.
Speaking so cruelly and abusively to his son Miro that he drove the boy out of his house.
Shorty throws the drunk out and the bar's white manager abusively confronts Carole over this.