Sentence examples for was abuse from inspiring English sources
verb
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.
"It was abuse of trust on a massive scale".
"I feel like that was abuse," Josh said.
But what they found there was abuse and violence.
There's a ton of stuff that shrinks have said to me was abuse that it never occurred to me was abuse.
When there was abuse, he said, "people have been punished and convicted in a court-martial.
I thought it was abuse, and had a snit on her behalf.
Mr. Kissinger, she said, has "seen a White House where there was abuse".
Though nobody has yet been convicted, there probably was abuse at Haut de la Garenne.
I didn't even understand it was abuse, because I was too young".
The post blames what it says was 'abuse' of its API on the leak, but acknowledges that the way that it stores the information made it possible for a database of numbers to be used to sniff out usernames and match them up.
