Sentence examples for speak abusively from inspiring English sources
Supervisors still speak abusively to workers, Mr. Bush said.
In 1906 Clement wrote an editorial for the Cincinnati Enquirer arguing that women made better umpires than men because men would not speak abusively towards female umpires.
Staff speak abusively to the women, calling them "stupid bitches," "hating-ass bitches," "too cute to be in prison," and "pieces of shit".
They define hate speech in terms of the manner of speaking (threateningly, abusively) and in terms of its intended object (to stir up hatred against some group).
Some of what you hear about them may even be true, but all of it will be written or spoken in an abusively familiar style — chummy, coarse, knowing.
So by the same token, we Americans should take the initiative and speak up when it is our own government that is holding people without trial and treating prisoners abusively.
Speak, Sergio Marchionne, speak!
We call such misalignments "loose speak".
