Sentence examples for abuse the term from inspiring English sources

As a term of abuse, the term "neo-liberalism" as it is bandied around in the world of utopian left wing critique, is basically a straight synonym for "capitalism"—an untenable position for liberalism which is and always has been a philosophy about the appropriate relation of state-given rights and market freedoms, not one in which markets are the root of all evil.

People abuse the term "redneck" to the point where I don't like it.

Strikingly, he doesn't suggest that we should be concerned about increased anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., and seems to indicate that because some people may abuse the term "Islamophobia," we should simply dismiss it altogether.

Some people also abuse the terms "anti-Semite" and "racist," but imagine his outrage if those terms were swiped from usage.

Some months ago, a Michigan hot-rodder, feeling that Gilbert had abused the term in one of his weekly columns, set him right: Do you know what a real Hot-Rodder is? . . .

He flashes Lanvin sneakers and drops the term “dope” about as often as a Valley girl abuses the term “like.”.

Like the empty rhetoric of George W. Bush and his most visible protege of the day, John McCain, Democrat Wilson abused the term democracy to scare Americans into war: America needs to make "the world safe for democracy" he said in 1917.

"In particular in the context of climate change adaptation there is a real danger of misuse, or abuse, of the term, as it seems to be increasingly co-opted to accommodate rather than challenge forms of development that are implicated in human-caused climate change and other global environmental problems.

It finds first authors' disciplines to be reliable indicators of both the focus and topic of the research, with the dominant fields of psychology, medicine, and social work addressing respectively the long term outcomes of sexual abuse, the short term outcomes of physical abuse, and the care system's response to child maltreatment.

This is an abuse of the term "bubble".

The abuse of the term "icon" incites iconoclasm, or ought to.