The phrase "abuse audience" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a situation where an audience is mistreated or subjected to harmful behavior, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The speaker's intention was to engage the audience, but instead, he ended up abusing the audience with his harsh words."
Alternatives: "mistreat audience" or "harm audience".
My opponents are abusing me, he said, moments after he himself had abused the audience, and soon his contradictions seemed obvious to everyone in the vicinity.
Savile reportedly abused young audience members during recordings of Top of the Pops.
He abuses the audience, refuses to humour them, and persuades them to join him in anti-Arab chants.
He enjoys abusing his audience for their timidity, and at one point ejected a child from the theatre because he disapproved of the child's stated ambition (perhaps justifiably: the kid wanted to be a porn star).
Drew's gestures become bullish as he abuses the audience for not making enough "mosh pits", then, seemingly fed up with the crowd's limp attempts at controlled violence, the encore concludes with him rolling around on the floor, fighting his guitarist and a second rendition of "ill Manors" (the single, not the album, or the film).
The shift towards the arts consumer was a necessary corrective to a period in which composers, writers and painters wantonly baffled if not abused their audiences.
But it was resident Siouxsie Sioux and the "Bromley Contingent", with Billy Idol, Sid Vicious and Adam Ant among its membership, that brought notoriety to the area when they appeared alongside the Sex Pistols during their infamous interview on the Bill Grundy show, shouting abuse from the audience.
"Thanks for the Memory," indeed — it seems that rituals of generational piety can withstand vast amounts of audience abuse.
"Thanks for the Memory," indeed it seems that rituals of generational piety can withstand vast amounts of audience abuse.
The large-scale production is handsome but sluggish, and the staging veers from inappropriate scrambling comedy to an almost sadistic abuse of the audience's tolerance for pain.
