Contumelious vs Abusive - What's the difference?
contumelious | abusive | Related terms |
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
* 1879 ,
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
* I am ... necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. - Fuller
(archaic) Catachrestic.
(archaic) Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse.
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Prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
* An abusive lampoon. - A dictionary of the English language
(obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
* An abusive treaty. -
(archaic) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
* The abusive prerogatives of his see. -
(obsolete) Given to misusing.
Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.
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Contumelious is a related term of abusive.
As adjectives the difference between contumelious and abusive
is that contumelious is (archaic|literary) rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful while abusive is wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal .contumelious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.