The phrase "abuse words" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe the act of using language in a harmful or derogatory way, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "He tends to abuse words when he gets angry, often resorting to insults and harsh language."
Alternatives: "use offensive language" or "speak abusively."
"Everyone abided by the government's instructions and the convicted was not subjected to any breach, chanting, abuse words or insults," Dabbagh said.
In their spoken and written expressions, many people use, misuse, and abuse words in the most extraordinary ways.
WORD ABUSE How the Words We Use Use Us.
Poetry is the antidote to such abuse of words.
John Adams got it right: "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction and division of society".
At summer's end, try a trio of Gutenberg-style volumes — the retronym is "print-page books" — about the use and abuse of words.
My commission would test for the abuse of words such as "could", "might", "up to", as in "Isis terrorism could threaten up to a thousand lives", or "superbugs could take us back to the dark ages".
There isn't enough space available here to chronicle the frequent abuse of words like "Holocaust" and "Nazi" to describe modern controversies or even relatively petty annoyances — whether it's Glenn Beck comparing President Obama's policies on stem-cell research to "the final solution" or Ted Turner likening Rupert Murdoch to "the late Fuhrer".
Unspeak by Steven Poole 288pp, Little, Brown, £9.99 The use and abuse of words is an endlessly fascinating subject to anyone interested in communications, and the 30 pages' worth of reference notes - and perhaps the design of this book - persuaded me I was about to read a serious piece of work.
Reid takes this position to be "not so much an error in judgment, as an abuse of words" (Reid 1785/1969, 782).
Label Tarantino a cinematic racist and a misogynist who allows his fictional characters to use and abuse the words "n*****" and "bitch" in The Hateful Eight.
