Adjective

(en-adj)

Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

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* The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.

(classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.

* Bishop Fell

It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.

* Bancroft

The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.

* 1860 , G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis? , age 265

Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis , the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

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.