abusiveness

noun

Definition of abusivenessnext
as in cruelty

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  1. cruelty
  2. hatred
  3. malevolence
  4. malice
  5. spite
  6. malignancy
  7. hostility
  8. malignity
Noun
  • His father, Colin Gray, is facing 29 charges — including two counts of involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder and cruelty to children — related to the shooting at his son’s high school.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Patole's words can feel shocking to those in the West, where the conversation about eating meat revolves around ethics: the cruelty of animal slaughter and the environmental cost of raising animals for meat.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of hatred
Noun
  • Eastwood’s story runs on the bedrock of the unimpeachable, confident that there is a definite truth to be discovered about an event such as the killing of Kendall and that only malevolence or incompetence could prevent its discovery.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • What Uzumaki never loses is the core idea that the human body is a malleable, spongy thing, available to absorb both kindness, compassion, and good energy and malevolence, evil, and brutality.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of malevolence
Noun
  • Davenport was charged with malice murder, battery and criminal trespass.
    KC Baker, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Beard's mother, Lizette Bowers, says her son was acting out of love, not malice.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of malice
Noun
  • In spite of it all, my little experiment brought some memorable victories.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
  • In spite of this recent price activity, bitcoin is still in a strong, upward trend that has propelled it to multiple fresh, all-time highs over the last several months.
    Charles Lloyd Bovaird II, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of spite
Noun
  • The American Cancer Society identifies it as a factor in 40% of all cancer cases and 50% of cancer deaths, with clear links to malignancies of the uterus, esophagus, kidney, liver and gallbladder.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Mustang Bio's pipeline focuses on CAR T therapies for hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, with ongoing collaborations with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and City of Hope.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of malignancy
Noun
  • In January, the World Bank and Ipsos, a market research firm, estimated that nearly 60% of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed by hostilities.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Soon afterward, the U.S. said the system would not be deployed to Ukraine, with deputy Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh telling reporters that the war between Russia and Ukraine differed to hostilities in the Middle East.
    Michael D. Carroll AND Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of hostility
Noun
  • His Cyrano is the play’s hero, even if the character’s psychological limitations are as much a factor in the story as the machinations of De Guiche, whose malignity is sent up in Nathanson’s flamboyantly comic turn.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
  • For a decade, the central drama of Trumpism has concerned the Republican élites who continued to support him—the story has been about their malignity, or opportunism, or willful moral blindness.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2023
Definition of malignity
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