The phrase "abusive ways" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe harmful or damaging behaviors, often in the context of relationships or treatment of others.
Example: "The report highlighted the various abusive ways in which the victims were treated by their captors."
Alternatives: "harmful behaviors" or "damaging methods".
In so many communities, there are a disproportionate amount of white police officers who rule over black citizens and who use their authority in abusive ways.
Sentences of that sort have been meted out by judges seeking creative (critics say abusive) ways to get wrongdoers to shape up.
Born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer in 1898, the working-class Viennese girl was reared as a Catholic but, in an effort to escape her alcoholic father's abusive ways, made her early living as a whore.
Lucy's narration unfolds as a riot of sex, exercise and ever more abusive ways of saying "fat woman" (not that the thin escape: Game of Thrones star Lena Headey is an "anorexic fake-assed bitch").
I have personal knowledge of her abusive ways and tirades.
However, we are aware that active content may also be used in abusive ways".
Others were unsettled by the health threat posed by men engaged in this practice -- and by the abusive way they spoke of women.
Disabled people can reclaim the word but a non-disabled man using the word in an abusive way will not be reaping the whirlwind of hatred.
He held up two fingers (in a numeric rather than abusive way) with one hand, and formed a zero with the other.
A thousand two hundred and ninety-four days, about three and a half years, will be subtracted from his sentence — time served plus a hundred and twelve days to penalize the government for treating him in an illegally abusive way while he was in detention.
While this is reflective of a wider societal problem, teachers can do their bit by cracking down on language when it is used in a derogatory or abusive way.
