The phrase "abusing the terms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the misuse or misinterpretation of specific terminology or language in a particular context.
Example: "In the debate, he was accused of abusing the terms of the agreement to support his argument."
Alternatives: "misusing the terms" or "misapplying the terms".
His belief that the West abused the terms of Resolution 1973 to justify striking Libya has reinforced his hostility to Western intervention elsewhere.
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? . . .
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.
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.
Those seniors who go through the process are vulnerable to abuse when the terms of their loan are finally locked.
(If anyone abuses the terms, we hope they get caught: Free Our Data does not condone copyright theft).
He flashes Lanvin sneakers and drops the term dope about as often as a Valley girl abuses the term like..
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.
