The phrase "abusive at" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a location or context where abusive behavior occurs, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The environment was abusive at the workplace, leading to many complaints."
Alternatives: "abusive in" or "abusive towards".
Danny, 34, had been drunk and abusive at a family event, circling the house and banging on the windows.
(His excuse when he admitted having been drunk and abusive at an ice hockey match in 2006).
But there was nothing honest or genuine in the gruesome spectacle of Floyd getting steadily more hammered, more melancholy and more abusive at a lunch with his daughter Poppy, from whom he had been estranged for 10 years.
You can hear actual phone scam artists — relentless and abusive — at work in the audio recordings accompanying this post, which were compiled from conversations in which undercover investigators posed as elderly victims.
The national army – more than 50,000-strong in the east alone – is weak and abusive at the same time, unable to suppress rebellions on the one hand, and unwilling to disciplineits own abusive soldiers on the other.
For another, during his largely successful eight-plus-year run as the Mavericks' owner, he seems to have figured out how to be conspicuously fanatical, though not overly meddling or abusive, at least of his players.
While most victims come from abusive and at-risk backgrounds, that isn't always the case.
The repressive and, at times, abusive atmosphere at home engendered in him the resilience, endurance, and resourcefulness which would enable him to carry out his daring plan.
Joyce was fined £1,500 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after admitting abusive behaviour at the city's airport.
Kapitänleutnant Fritz Steinhoff, who had commanded U-511 during her rocket trials and was captured at sea when he surrendered, was subjected to an abusive interrogation at Portsmouth by the interviewers of U-546s crew.
That fear of embarrassment may be why Dr. Lamm — who is still at Yeshiva and declined to be interviewed — stayed quiet about the abusive rabbis at Yeshiva.
