Adjective

(en adjective)

Exploitative]]: [[take advantage, taking advantage of someone

* {{quote-news, 2009, January 17, William C. Rhoden, University Sells Itself During Playoffs, New York Times citation

, passage=The University of Phoenix, a for-profit educational institution, has turned the traditional relationship between athletics and higher education on its head, reducing it to its commercially exploitive essence. }}

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.