Abuse
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Mayfield said that the movie seemed like "a cocaine commercial," when he first saw it, and wrote songs decrying the urban decay and drug abuse that spawned such characters as the film's antihero.
Source: Music / Curtis Mayfield - That said, many (but not all) members engage in as much Lillipup-kicking as any other fictional Animal Wrongs Group; forcefully abducting Pokémon from their trainers, hypocritically keeping Pokémon themselves, and decrying perceived abuse by trainers while actually abusing Pokémon.
Source: Animal Wrongs Group - Pædo Hunt: Some of us will use FOR THE CHILDREN as our rallying cry, branding everyone from LGBT people to photographers as pedophiles and decrying even age-appropriate sexuality and abuse reporting information as "sexualizing children."
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Decrying and Abuse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/abuse/decrying
Abuse & Decrying. N.p., 2016. Web. 10 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/abuse/decrying>.
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