Abusive and Short

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Abusive adjective - Marked by harsh insulting language.

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Short and abusive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Abusive".

Nearby Words: abuse, abused, abusing, abusively

Short adjective - Having relatively little height.

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Abusive and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Abusive" instead an adjective "Short".

Abusive Parents: A short list: Beverly's father, Henry's father, Tom Rogan's mother, Eddie Corcoran's stepfather and Eddie Kaspbrak's mother (even if she didn't mean it that way).

Source: Literature / It
He is self-absorbed, abusive to Bart, has a very short temper, and often "borrows" from Flanders.

Source: Jerkass Woobie / Western Animation
Early in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Bu betrays and kills the warlord Dong Zhuo, his adoptive father-figure who had, up until that point, been increasingly short-fused and abusive to him.

Source: The Dog Bites Back / Literature

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