Sentence examples for abusive bad from inspiring English sources

Some worried that residential schools might be depicted, as Ottawa's Catholic Archbishop Terrence Prendergast described them this week, as a generally well-intentioned but poorly executed policy of social improvement, ultimately spoiled by a few sexually abusive bad apples.

Iris's story is a bitter one, a loveless tale of abusive marriage, bad loyalties and dissatisfaction.

Pick your cliché -- abusive parents, bad skin as an adolescent, it could be anything," he says, before concluding, "I now believe that all poker junkies are alike".

The Simone prowling these pages is not so much four women as one: a drunken, abusive, selfish, bad mother of a woman who was estranged from her only daughter, who fell out with her beloved father, who treated her musicians badly, who was frightening, intimidating and who herself was frightened and intimidated.

Appeals courts criticize some judges by name, citing abusive behavior and bad decisions.

"Inside the production manager's office they use very bad, abusive language.

In a poem he reads aloud in the documentary, he wonders if children from abusive parents are "bad seeds" and "destined to do the same deed".

"Inside the production manager's office, they use very bad, abusive language, like 'this isn't your father's factory'thethe door is wide open, leave if you can't meet the production goals'," she said.

Theirs is a realm of poignant, promiscuous, and brief youth; of abusive husbands; of bad lungs and calloused hands; of laddered stockings where a torn costume or the sickness of a child earn punitive fines.

Women have more power to escape abusive relationships or bad jobs.

She also opened up about her current relationship with actor Evan Jonigkeit, a stark departure from the "bad, abusive relationships" she's previously had.