The phrase "abusive spending" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe excessive or irresponsible financial expenditure that is harmful or detrimental, often in a personal or organizational context.
Example: "The company's recent financial report revealed a pattern of abusive spending that jeopardized its long-term stability."
Alternatives: "reckless spending" or "irresponsible expenditure".
Elledge's biography presents him as a fragile gay man in a secret long-term relationship and argues that his work was a response to an abusive childhood spent in asylums, shelters, and the slums of early-twentieth-century Chicago.
He also became a violent, abusive womaniser and spent a long stretch in prison for assaulting one of his girlfriends.
If the cat or kitty is coming from a breeder and is used to good treatment and being groomed and well-fed, that's one thing, but if the kitty was taken out of an abusive home or spent a long time in the pound, you may have to work a bit harder to understand that the kitty is scared--and suspicious--of his new environment and owner.
But I also try not to be abusive or let my spending habits hurt my family, which is what we care about most.
This is the Bill Gates model – in which the insane profits of running an abusive monopoly finally get spent on good causes, under the direction of the Gates family.
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He had an abusive childhood and now spends a good chunk of time trying to help out his kid neighbor, who is also growing up in an abusive home.
My memories are of coming home from a Women's Refuge camp basically, my father was an abusive alcoholic so Mum spent a bit of time with the Refuge, and we had gone away on this camp.
He had normal guy hair, never once called me "duuuude," and as ridiculous as his stories were, they were tinged with sorrow as he recalled the abusive seven months he spent on a weed farm with a batshit crazy guy named Sparrow Hawk: his penis-flapping, acid-eating, Dead Head junkie pot-planting partner. .
A childhood spent in an abusive home, where an abundant marijuana crop grew out back.
