The phrase "abusing words" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of using language in a harmful or manipulative way, often to mislead or hurt others.
Example: "In his speech, he was not just expressing his opinion; he was abusing words to incite anger and division among the audience."
Alternatives: "misusing language" or "manipulating words".
"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.
It is common for inexperienced speakers to place intervening sentences during the speech or abusing certain words like let's say, just, simply (language-specific conversational fillers/discourse makers).
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.
Tell us something we don't know about being a museum curator One thing that's bound to annoy any museum curator is other people abusing the word for what we do.
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.
