The phrase "abusive tendencies" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe patterns of behavior that are harmful or aggressive, often in the context of relationships or interactions.
Example: "The therapist noted that his abusive tendencies were a significant factor in the breakdown of his previous relationships."
Alternatives: "aggressive behaviors" or "harmful inclinations."
Each has demonstrated authoritarian and abusive tendencies while in power.
These facilities seem to have taken an unduly optimistic view of the ease with which abusive tendencies could be cured.
Watch out 50 Shades – The Misogyny Book Club is coming for you and your abusive tendencies next.
They defend mild to moderate spanking as a disciplinary option, especially for children 2 to 6, but advise parents with abusive tendencies to avoid spanking.
In an authorial preface, Keneally, who as a youth trained for the priesthood, acknowledges that "the education to make me celibate … could create, encourage or license the young men whose abusive tendencies are mourned in this novel".
While his womanising has long been romanticised (he is seen as a libertine and fun-loving), passages about his relationships with his lover Claire Clairmont and Annabella show his volatility and abusive tendencies.
Is someone with abusive paedophile tendencies more or less likely to put those urges into action if he (or indeed she) can indulge those fantasies within the confines of a book?
Her 1997 book Paradoxia: a Predator's Diary is a fictionalised memoir which details her substance abuse, abusive father and her sexually dominant tendencies, which she continues to explore in her thorny lyrics.
Such a case might involve a spouse's failure to disclose homosexual tendencies, an abusive streak or a gambling addiction.
Upon his election, some of the foremost psychiatrists in the country began raising alarm bells in letters to (among others) then president Barack Obama, the New York Times, and New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene warning about the paranoia, grandiosity, delusions, narcissism, and abusive, violent, and exploitative tendencies they saw in the country's incoming president.
The question of whether Mr. Livoti's tendency toward abusive behavior should have been recognized earlier by the department became a central issue in the civil lawsuit and in the larger debate about how the department dealt with Mr. Livoti in the years before Mr. Baez's death.
