Sentence examples for abuse of the language from inspiring English sources

"I think this is an abuse of the language".

Vision America's Rick Scarborough delivered a scathing guest sermon in New Jersey declaring the use of the word "gay" inappropriate, insisting it was an "abuse of the language".

Earlier this year, Scarborough expressed anti-gay sentiments, declaring the word "gay" an "abuse of the language" during a guest sermon in New Jersey.

After a couple of weeks of exposure to such overstatements, my English ears had taken just about as much of this abuse of the language as they could take and, risking getting fired before I had begun my first day on the job, I foolhardily blurted, "That isn't a great idea.

ANTONIN SCALIA -- The two justices, ideological opposites, shared a passion for policing abuses of the language.

Fabulous abuse of the English language for "play".

Sorry to go psycho but this is a major abuse of the English language".

And as with the president, a favourite line of attack is his abuse of the English language.

To the abuses of statistical science and its stooge, epidemiology, is added something far more dangerous, the abuse of the English language.

Like so much in this campaign, in which the rhetoric has set new standards for bad faith and for abuse of the English language, the letter requires some translation.

The discussion in "A Battle of Words Over War Intelligence" (Arts & Ideas, Nov. 22) offering the choice of force versus intelligence is an abuse of the English language that leads to stupid wars.