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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abusive one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person or thing that is characterized by abusive behavior or qualities.
Example: "The abusive one in the group often belittles others and creates a toxic environment."
Alternatives: "abusive individual" or "abusive person".
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Billy's slap on the wrist from an older priest to a younger, abusive one and his shushing gestures are bland next to his enactment of anguish on the molested boy's face.
It was neither a materially deprived existence nor a physically abusive one.
In contrast, an overwhelming majority of party members avoided eye contact and a few were abusive – one man told me to "fuck off", others said "that's not true" and walked on.
Dr. Martin stressed that anonymous relocations happen only with a judge's permission and that the courts are very reluctant to approve them for children if the other parent, even an abusive one, has any custody rights.
The problem with mandatory sentences, Justice Kagan wrote, is that "every juvenile will receive the same sentence as every other — the 17-year-old and the 14-year-old, the shooter and the accomplice, the child from a stable household and the child from a chaotic and abusive one".
One of my big frustrations with the success of Fifty Shades of Grey is that there is so much of the main relationship that plays into the misconception that a sexual relationship based around BDSM is, at its core, an abusive one.
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I was tempted to construct this piece in textspeak, Tweet abbreviations or increasingly abusive one-liners to demonstrate the level of wit the internet has facilitated – one that is frighteningly easily to mimic and perpetuate.
In most cases, he said, that makes them better officers, not more abusive ones.
He answers, sometimes very briefly, all but any abusive ones, which, he says, have been very few.
She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her husband of nine years, Girard Fox (their relationship came as a happy relief after many abusive ones, she says), and with their 7-year-old daughter.
For the article, I interviewed more than ten students, two unrelated parents and a current employee who describe bizarre, abusive, one-size-fits-all "therapies" that are neither educational or therapeutic.
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