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abused English

Meaning abused meaning

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abused

used improperly or excessively especially drugs an abused substance subjected to cruel treatment an abused wife

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Simple sentences

The king abused his power.
The dictator abused his privileges to his heart's content.
He abused our trust.
He abused the privilege.
He must have abused the privilege.
Mary's husband abused her.
Tom was abused by his father.
Tom abused my trust.
On behalf of the government, the mass media are abused.
The governor abused his authority.
For many years, Tom has been constantly complaining about his traumatic childhood, but there are many people who were similarly abused in their childhood who did not end up like Tom.
You've abused my trust.
He abused my confidence.
He abused my trust.
Tom abused our trust.
Tom abused alcohol and pain pills.
The memory of the Holocaust is abused for political purposes.

Movie subtitles

Abused and cursed and driven mad, but I stayed just to be near you.
I will not have my benevolence abused.
I will not have my benevolence abused!
So the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged process of my death rankly abused.
He abused you, gave you VD, and then left you like a dog!
But people like you abused her and forced her to change.
I have abused your kindness.
And speaking of hospitality, may I say that you have abused mine for the last time?
I must be held a rancorous enemy. Cannot a plain man live and think no harm. but thus his simple truth must be abused. by silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?
But now his words are abused for the cause of common revolt!
They feed better and they are no longer abused.
And as well though I am blind, he has abused my person.
France, you're abused.
Poor, abused Amaryllis.
One who is at the point of pining away. mocked, harassed, abused by tortures which.
You crown the one who kidnapped your daughters, who seduced and abused your children, perhaps killed!
When I'm abused or badly used, I always get my man.
You were in command and abused it, with Essex first and England second.
And I abused the poor creature so abominably over the telephone.
For the family fortunes were squandered upon the vain and selfish stepsisters, while Cinderella was abused, humiliated, and finally forced to become a servant in her own house.
Abused my loyalty!
And speaking of hospitality, you have abused mine for the last time.
I've really abused your kindness.
I suspect that you have abused the innocence of this child.
You have abused her innocence, Asking her so many questions.
Poor, abused boy.
Not because he abused me, not because he stole all my savings, but because it is the will of God.
Thus, as time went by, the chateau fell into disrepair. For the family fortunes were squandered upon the vain and selfish stepsisters, while Cinderella was abused, humiliated, and finally forced to become a servant in her own house.
You've abused hundreds of women.
Cannot a plain man live and think no harm. but thus his simple truth must be abused. by silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?
But will August be forced to let his true love be abused?
We have abused your hospitality.
So, they abused the host and left.
I would not have your free and noble nature out of self-bounty be abused.

News and current affairs

America's business scandals showed how accounting rules can be bent and abused to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a company.
The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.
This has two advantages: it limits discretion by the EU policymakers, and hence insures that transfer of power is not abused; it also facilitates post-transfer accountability and control.
Bernard Kouchner, France's new foreign minister, has a long and distinguished record as an advocate of intervention in countries where human rights are abused.
All freedoms can be abused by liberty's enemies, but in the case of speech, the risk posed by restricting freedom is surely greater.
But Iraq has already degenerated into so many rival factions that apart from the abused prisoners, there is no identifiable entity America has wronged and to whom it is indebted.
For this, thank the often abused Euro, for it has anchored the once profligate nations of the Mediterranean in German-style monetary discipline.
But not only people were horrifically abused.
This is vital because, in the past, when Romania's political elites enjoyed too much autonomy or real national sovereignty, they abused it.
The people who are suffering are not those who abused the system and caused the crisis.
Today, the very human rights that were guaranteed by the constitution are being violated, with a politicized judiciary routinely abused and manipulated in order to justify the prime minister's actions.
Above all we have committed ourselves to the idea that no individual - regardless of gender, ethnicity or race - shall have his or her human rights abused or ignored.
But they feel abused by government efforts to sugarcoat the manipulation of election after election by claiming that judges supervise the voting.
During the 1990's, many adult psychotherapy patients began to recall having been sexually abused during childhood.
If the British unions wanted to be ethically consistent, they should apply the same strategies to universities in the numerous countries where human rights are brutally abused and free speech suppressed.
Anti-blasphemy laws not only violate that principle; they can easily be abused as a tool of political power and impoverish their societies by imposing a code of rigid conformity.
They need regulations to ensure that consumers make informed decisions, externalities are internalized, and market power is not abused.
Evocative historical dates are being used or abused in a similar way on the other edge of the European continent, to conjure up images of enemies that resonate in contemporary political debates.
The nighttime assault on a United Nations employee and her family made international news, but hundreds of less well connected Burmese have been similarly abused.
Some of them - if carried too far or abused in certain ways - can lead us to hell.
For that, Americans need to be smarter, investing in peaceful development rather than military bases in long-abused lands.
Meanwhile, the Chinese solution gave rise to nationalist fears that sovereign wealth funds might be abused to seize strategically vital businesses or whole sectors of an economy.
But not only people were horrifically abused. Iraq's environment was tormented as well.
There is also no shortage of images of abused prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison or the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, which have likewise done more to recruit new adherents to Islamic fanaticism than any sermon in a radical mosque.
Will he tolerate and endorse his prime minister's personal aversions, or is he willing to put an end to the infamous spectacle of a judicial process that has been manipulated and abused from beginning to end?

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