The phrase "abused act" is grammatically correct but may not be commonly used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing actions that have been mistreated or misused, particularly in legal or social discussions.
Example: "The report highlighted several instances of an abused act that violated the rights of the individuals involved."
Alternatives: "misused action" or "mistreated behavior".
A handful of new studies notably are investigating whether being physically or sexually abused acts as a psychosocial stressor that affects the risk of developing breast cancer (either directly or else indirectly, e.g., via increasing risk of obesity or alcohol consumption) [ 4] and also the likelihood of getting a mammogram [ 5].
In the United States, we have a history with this specific bit of evil, perhaps best evinced in my view with the endlessly abused Espionage Act of 1917 and revoked mail privileges during World War I.
You know, because as Indians we've been so stereotyped and maligned and oppressed and abused, in acts and deed, in action and word, we seek literature that cheers us in some way, that acts as some sort of antidote, rather than an examination of us, and an interrogation of us.
Domestic violence against women refers to abusive acts that consist of three elements: boundaries of the relationship between the perpetrator and the abused, the norms of acceptable behavior, and the specific acts that constitute violence as the manifestation of subordination (10).
It's an awfully long time to be immersed in the stream-of-consciousness ramblings of an angry, abused and abusive character, who recounts his violent acts and fantasies in graphic and repetitious detail, delivers lots of caustic rants about women and homosexuals, and who often seems less like a coherent individual than a cobbled-together pastiche of a focus group of tormented teenagers.
Thanks to the well-intentioned, but often abused, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 the ITC can ban the importation of a product into the US if it infringes a patent.
In "Teenagers Under the Gun" (Friday at 9 p.m ., adolescents who excel in high school or dress and act differently are abused and threatened.
In 1998, fewer than 2,500 foreign women applied to become permanent residents under the Violence Against Women Act, which allows abused wives to apply for residence without the support of their husbands.
Part of the Obama administration's proposal would dramatically expand the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the oft-abused and notorious statute that the Justice Department used to threaten the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz with 35 years in jail.
In 1998, Jovovich appeared in Spike Lee's drama He Got Game, as abused prostitute Dakota Burns; she acted with Denzel Washington and Ray Allen.
