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Recent Examples of abusively
When Rabbit asks to be the one to adopt Stacey after her graduation, Evelyn abusively rejects the notion and Rabbit is crushed.
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Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abusively
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To protect her face, Campoy used her arm, which the squirrel clawed viciously.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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In this week's PEOPLE cover story, the matriarch, 80, recalls the scary moment a camel viciously attacked Navarone (her son with ex Marco Garibaldi) during a visit to a friend's animal sanctuary in California's San Fernando Valley.—
Brianne Tracy,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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Sher Bahadur Deuba—who had served five terms as Nepal’s Prime Minister, most recently in 2022—and his wife, Arzu Rana, the foreign minister in Oli’s cabinet, were beaten savagely in their home.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The Hurricanes booed savagely on road trips was music to the ears.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
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Before that, Abbie is being ruthlessly scrutinized and controlled by her parents, while Leila’s mother has mostly checked out after her elder daughter’s sudden death.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
26 Sep. 2025
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All four victims had been ruthlessly stabbed to death before the attacker vanished through the kitchen’s sliding glass door and into the night.—
Ian Berry,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Comedians mercilessly mocked their audiences, and audiences liked to punch back.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Even for someone used to covering for her daughter’s wrongdoings, Tracey is remarkably self-possessed as Laura pries mercilessly into her life and accuses Cherry of every crime under the sun.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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Bukele had been waging a harassment campaign against El Faro, which had aggressively covered corruption in his government.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has taken up the anti-immigrant campaign aggressively, deputizing law-enforcement officers to assist ICE in its roundups.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Abusively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abusively. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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