Sentence examples for rather abused from inspiring English sources

The musical or comedy category has long been used, or rather abused, by studios trying to jimmy in their films that would otherwise risk a lack of nomination in the drama category (for example, 2013 saw Spike Jonze's heartbreaking, vaguely amusing at times, drama Her sneak in).

Three years later, Out magazine anointed him its "artist of the year", an honour that some commentators thought he rather abused by using it as an opportunity to lambast the gay community for its "laziness", "irresponsibility" and "tremendous sense of complacency" in being "much less fearful" today of the threat of HIV.

It is also fair to say that there must have been many good priests who helped children in their care rather than abused them.

Complete with crown-of-thorns imagery, the church has started an Easter public relations blitz defending a pope who went along with the perverse culture of protecting molesters and the church's reputation rather than abused — and sometimes disabled and disadvantaged — children.

It is rather an abused term in this context.

Here, she was physically rather than sexually abused, but it was her worst experience in care.

At the moment the commission looks more like an apologist for abuse rather than an advocate for the abused.

But Betbeze's work stands out in its abused aesthetic; rather than a created work her works look like they have been beaten to a pulp.

Referring to the probability of minors' being sexually abused in institutions rather than in any other location, the report said, "It emerged that the risk was twice as high as the national average, but with no sufficient difference between Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic institutions".

She called for better training for doctors and nurses, so that they felt confident to take action if they had suspicions that a child was being abused or neglected, rather than thinking it was enough to "raise the alarm".

I think it would be better to say what we know or would like to know rather than use a much abused metaphor to explain what's going on.