The phrase "abusive directors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe directors who engage in harmful or harmful behavior towards others, particularly in a workplace or organizational context.
Example: "The company faced backlash after allegations surfaced about the abusive directors who created a toxic work environment."
Alternatives: "harmful directors" or "toxic directors".
The conductor Charles Dutoit, tired of the growing criticisms that he has been a caustic and abusive music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, quit that post suddenly, angrily and publicly this season.
"Are you rushing or are you dragging?" So asks the abusive band director in the Academy Award-nominated film Whiplash.
9. My writer friend Dave says, "I'd been hired to be a house slave for a notoriously abusive Hollywood director, had been working for him for a week but hadn't yet met him.
J.K. Simmons won a well-deserved Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Terence Flethcer, an abusive "genius" director of a big band at some New Yorkish Jazz conservatory, pitted against Miles Teller's Andrew Neyman, an equally arrogant egotistical young drummer who sees himself as the second-coming of Buddy Rich.
- Producers of Jane Got a Gun have sued Lynne Ramsay saying the director was "abusive and under the influence" on set.
THE GIRL (HBO, Oct. 20) Toby Jones ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy") is Alfred Hitchcock and Sienna Miller ("Factory Girl") is Tippi Hedren in this fictional account of the semi-abusive relationship between director and actress on the sets of "The Birds" and "Marnie".
CIA director George Tenet approved abusive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, designed by CIA contractor psychologists.
"We are going to make sure that funds are priced properly even without any indication that there has been abusive market timing," said Stephen M. Cutler, director of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Like many actors, he said, he felt subjected to "abusive treatment" at the hands of directors.
An abusive basketball coach and the athletic director lost their jobs and were replaced by a coach with a faulty résumé and an athletic director with a questionable past.
