Adjective

(en adjective)

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.

Adjective

(er)

Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

* Spenser

the ugly view of his deformed crimes

* (William Shakespeare)

O, I have passed a miserable night, / So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Offensive]] to one's [[sensibility, sensibilities or morality.

*, chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly , gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.