abusiveness
51indecency — n 1. impropriety, improperness, indecorum, indecorousness; gaucheness, gaucherie, uncouthness, crassness, boorishness, rudeness, ill breeding, unmannerliness, ill manneredness, uncivility, uncivilness, ungentlemanliness; inappropriateness,… …
52obscenity — n 1. indecency, vulgarity, vulgarness, salaciousness, vileness, foulness, obsceneness; filthiness, nastiness, Sl. raunchiness; lecherousness, lubricity, lustfulness, bawdiness, libidinousness, concupiscence, carnality, carnalness; licentiousness …
53ribaldry — n 1. scurrility, scurrilousness, abusiveness, blackguardism, profaneness; indecency, shamelessness, suggestivity, immodesty, indelicacy; offen siveness, grossness, rankness, repulsiveness, repulsivi ty; vulgarity, vulgarness, obsceneness,… …
54scurrility — n 1. abusiveness, blackguardism, pro faneness, scurrilousness; vulgarity, vulgarness, ob sceneness, lewdness, salaciousness; grossness, rankness, vileness, foulness, filthiness, nastiness, Sl. raun chiness; indecency, immorality, shamelessness,… …
55severity — n 1. harshness, rigor, rigorousness, stringency, asperity, strictness, roughness, extremity; inflexibility, unbendingness, unyieldingness, obdurateness, flintiness; persistence, unremittance, inexorability, implacability, relentlessness;… …
56tartness — n 1. sharpness, sourness, acidity, acridness, acerbity; pungency, piquancy, bitterness, acidu lousness, harshness. 2. acrimony, causticity, asperity, mordancy, astrin gency, trenchancy; severity, harshness, austerity, sternness; spite,… …
57vulgarity — n 1. ignorance, unsophistication, unawareness, naTvete, naTveness; gaucheness, gaucherie, uncouthness, crassness, rudeness, boorishness, brut ishness, rawness; ill breeding, unmannerliness; i 11 manneredness, uncivility, uncivilness,… …
58abusive — /əˈbjusɪv/ (say uh byoohsiv) adjective 1. using harsh words or ill treatment: an abusive author. 2. characterised by or containing abuse: an abusive satire. 3. wrongly used; corrupt: an abusive exercise of power. –abusively, adverb –abusiveness,… …
59oppression — [n] misery, hardship abuse, abusiveness, autocracy, brutality, calamity, coercion, compulsion, conquering, control, cruelty, despotism, dictatorship, domination, fascism, force, forcibleness, hardness, harshness, injury, injustice, iron hand*,… …
60abusive — ► ADJECTIVE 1) extremely offensive and insulting. 2) involving cruelty and violence. DERIVATIVES abusively adverb abusiveness noun …
