The term gets abused freely in discussions of modernist writers, a number of whom were reactionaries — Gay calls these "the anti-modern modernists" — and some of whom were anti-Semites, but very few of whom were actually Fascists.
In the opposition-sympathetic media, in particular, the term is abused and applied "to anyone on a motorcycle, anyone wearing a red shirt, anyone too poor-looking or dark-skinned," Ciccariello-Maher wrote in The Nation.
In the long term, sexually abused children have been found to have a three times higher risk of developing mental health- and physical problems than non-abused children [ 34- 39].
"However, some abused women do attack their partners after experiencing long-term abuse – often when they are fearing for their life or the lives of their children.
However, isn't it a major triumph to get psychological abuse officially recognised, not just in terms of the abused, or the abusers, but also for those who need to better understand the multifaceted nature of abuse?
Immersive is a much bandied-about and abused term these days.
Berry acknowledged that native "is a highly abused term" (in his view, native advertising means that the ad has to match the look and the content of the site), but he argued that RebelMouse can deliver sponsored content in a real-time way that's sensitive to the user's context: "We can give publishers native advertising at scale".
It is rather an abused term in this context.
(By the way, to see why I will not call these anti-choice reactionaries "pro-life," see my own definition of this grossly abused term).
Genius also happens to be a widely abused term that privileges technical mastery (think, guitar shedding) rather than depth of emotional interpretation (another reason why female interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald have been time and time again left out of the boys' club category of genius).
