How To Use Abused In A Sentence

Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
Stated income loans only deserve the moniker "liar loans" because they were abused by banks and given to borrowers who lacked the income to qualify full doc. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
In a landmark case/decision, the Governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.

We took the abused child away from its parents
That's right, vast swabs of the offending speech are reproduced under the cover of the Parliamentary privilege that had been so abused.
All the children had been physically and emotionally abused.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disabused us of this notion. The President's Risky Defense Strategy
You abused them sexually for what must have been your sexual lust under cover of medical examination.
He was even caricatured and abused for his attempt to "bestialize" his species by the introduction into their systems of diseased matter from the cow's udder. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
an abused wife
Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeated allegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopted daughter Dylan.
Several of the children had been sexually abused.
When Rostnikov repeated that the primary evidence against Samsonov was the testimony of an Evenk shaman, Samsonov had to be restrained by Famfanoff who, surprisingly, found enough strength within his abused body to control the furious doctor. A Cold Red Sunrise
Now in her 30s, between the ages of 9 and 18, Samantha was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather.
Mr Woodcock's wife Mandy and 18-month-old daughter Maisie were only yards away when he was abused and "mooned" at by young yobs after he went to confront them. Evening Mail news round-up
Developing countries think these procedures are abused by rich countries to keep out their goods.
Owenson's status as a professional woman writer was constantly abused by contemporary male reviewers, who savagely attacked everything she wrote.
I have to take into account that you are an abused and vulnerable person.
Show some spunk . Quit pretending you're being abused.
He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
Worse than parental leave, she says, is the 120-day annual allowance for parents to tend to sick children, which is impossible to plan and which is suspected of being widely abused.
While these catchphrases have been used and abused to the point of becoming banal, they are both historically accurate as well as symbolic of the attitudes that made the Apollo program in general a success.
The protesters 'latest target is a credit union that accepts Mexico's matricular consular identity card, a card that is easily forged, easily abused. CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2005
The Office of Inspector General -- which in May issued a damning report about the appalling lack of enforcement of inhumane large-scale commercial dog breeding operations -- found that the present government program for inspecting horses for soring "is not adequate to ensure that these animals are not being abused. Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
She was sexually abused as a child, she only completed grade 9, and she contracted Hepatitis C apparently while in detention.
We now know that some families were cruel to children and that many children were abused without anyone stepping in to stop it.
_ Ha! ha! nay there she abused you, 'tis plain; for you know what Manly said: the sweetness of your pulvillio she might mean; but for your breath! ha! ha! ha! History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
This didn't really go down so well because they repeated and misconstrued every word, and she rang me up and abused me.
A child who had been terrorized and quite possibly emotionally and sexually abused by an adult kidnaper for four years. O'REILLY ABUSES THE ABUSED: Then Lies That He's Done So
While several have received the care and support that they need, many others have died on the streets, uncared for, lonely, abused and forgotten…
Interestingly, many abusers of ketamine report that the drug's effects are dependent upon the setting within which it is abused.
I think there is a similarity to the attitude of many abused children who blame themselves for the abusive actions of their parents.
HOFFER: And it has a kind of muckrake -- or a sort of -- you know, muckrakers at the beginning of the 20th century were attacking the robber barons, the great industries, for their abuses, the way they abused their workers, they way they abused public trust, and so on. Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin
(which were all utterly against all the rules of nature) it would breed no monster, but onely such a naturall of-spring, as would haue cummed betuixt that man or woman and that other abused person, in-case they both being aliue had had a doe with other. Daemonologie.
In a recent article, John Pilger quotes historian Mark Curtis 'characterization of "unworthy victims" as "unpeople" while Herman and Chomsky explain the "propaganda system," played out in the dominant media, characterizes people abused and victimized by us or our client states as "unworthy. "Worthy and Unworthy Victims"
Doubtful it may be, whether it should be called dimness of understanding, or rather perverse ingenuity, that men reason thus, when the facts are: So general is the disposition to abuse power, that wherever it is accumulated, it will surely be abused; accordingly it must be distributed as equally as possible. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
She abused her position as principal by giving jobs to her friends.
The bible says that the body is sacred and cannot be abused.
The Rovers' barmaid is being emotionally abused in scenes that are repeated behind closed doors in homes in Greater Manchester and across the country.
Hervey herself owns another 50 cats, many of which are injured or have been abused.
Janet never abused Jamie, but she could be rough when she was drunk.
They make their student-years but a pretext for a life of rough debauchery, from which they issue with a bought diploma; and, in many cases, satiated and disgusted with their own lives, they dwindle down into the timeserving reactionaries, the worst enemies of free development, because they themselves have abused in youth the little liberty they enjoyed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
Miss Lackey's definition of 'abused' is so broad that any reader who had parents can fancy they were eligible to be whisked off to Elfland. Archive 2007-10-01
Deep breathing through the nose and mouth is often involved when volatile substances are abused, not simply ‘sniffing’.
The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.
For clarity's sake: all those doping products are medicines that are being abused.
If to recall good deeds erewhiles performed be pleasure to a man, when he knows himself to be of probity, nor has violated sacred faith, nor has abused the holy assent of the gods in any pact, to work ill to men; great store of joys awaits thee during thy length of years, O Catullus, sprung from this ingrate love of thine. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
You deliberately and calculatedly abused trust placed in you by pupils and staff.
Treatment has only one goal: sobriety or total abstinence from alcohol or the abused substance.
Jeremiah's power to reverse the sentence God had passed upon Zedekiah, but it was in Zedekiah's power to reverse the sentence which the princes had given against him; and therefore, since he thought him fit to be used as a prophet, he would not think him fit to be abused as the worst of malefactors. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Maybe in the same way that a batterer claims to “love” his abused spouse. Think Progress » Study predicts $1.5 trillion increase in GDP if undocumented immigrants are legalized.
Even more egregiously misleading is the claim that the President abused his power by "acquiescing" in the efforts of the Secret Service to assert a protective function privilege. The White House Rebuttal
Even if you do not recall being abused, the novel theory of rediscovered memories allows you to claim that he actually did, although you did not know it until an abuse therapist helped you to introspect in middle age.
I don’t know whether you’ll find it traumatic, but reading accounts like these, of people abused and maltreated at the hands of physicians and systems who don’t understand them and would rather study them than help them — well, it makes me rather rageful, which is manifesting itself in an upset stomach. I kinda feel like it needs a warning « Love | Peace | Ohana
He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer, and Dinah had disabused him.
The law is vulnerable to being manipulated or abused to serve injustice, and vulture lawyers simply rape the law and prostitute justice to serve the unscrupulous and guilty for profits. Dr T.P.Chia
The latter system has been dogged by complaints that it can too easily be abused by people intent on fraud.
The story, accusations that people who had their bodies frozen at extremely low temperatures -- a practice called cryonics -- may have been abused by a company that stored their remains. CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009
Our much-appreciated donations would be better spent caring for unwanted pets, abused and neglected animals, and sick or injured wildlife.
Adoption offers a real alternative so that childhood, for many abused and neglected children, will become more than a test of endurance.
The Law Society also considers that the recommendation enabling judges to exclude relevant evidence in certain circumstances is capable of being abused.
Abused women feel isolated from the family and society because of their guilt, shame and fear.
The real Nixon was not a benign statesman but a ruthless, corrupt president who abused power on a spectacular scale.
Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
It is the most abused and neglected part of your body.
Never was the _honour_, the _principles_, the policy of a nation so grossly abused as in the desertion of those men, who are now exposed to _every punishment_ that _desertion_ and _poverty_ can inflict, _because they were not rebels_. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters.
Among the most commonly abused prescription drugs are opioid pain relievers.
This power is often abused by those who are not temperamentally or attitudinally suited to the job.
This text is one of the more abused texts in the Bible.
This agent crosses the blood-brain barrier and thereby reverses both central and peripheral effects of the abused anticholinergic drug.
It's an invaluable source of movie info, but like any site with anonymous user reviews, it's easily abused.
Maybe it's because I've suddenly realised that I've abused my tired old body far more than was good for it - and me.
When the overplus is abused, it is just with God to diminish that which is for necessity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
They believed their children were being abused by the system set up to protect them.
The last time I had it, a woman reporter was humiliated and verbally abused in a National Football League locker room.
In college I abused alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and other drugs socially, at parties.
The Mayor and his cohorts have abused their positions of power.
His difference makes him a victim, repeatedly abused and cheated.
The answer is one of the most neglected and abused kitchen appliances ever invented: the refrigerator.
In total, 331 male witnesses reported that 445 people associated with industrial or reformatory schools abused them, with 402 males and 43 females being identified.
It proposes that hospitals be given the right to retain children they suspected were being abused, and the banning of harmful cultural practices such as unhygienic circumcision. ANC Daily News Briefing
I walked slowly, flexing my cramped and abused muscles, trying to restore circulation, and taking in my surroundings at the same time.
They were tortured, humiliated and abused in gross contravention of the Geneva convention.
The icing on the cake is Lily Tomlin as Russ's much-abused assistant: wry doesn't get any wryer. All Grown Up On The Inside
MUNICH - The archbishop of Munich and Freising begged forgiveness on Friday for "everything those working for the church have done" as he presented a report that showed over 250 priests and religion teachers abused children in a diocese that was once presided over by Pope StarTribune.com rss feed
In the scenes in which she was abused by the vindictive villagers, Doone gave a moving representation of the ruffled pride of the old and slightly dotty.
This artifice, a manifestation of the diabolic nature of its author, had too much of the success intended by it, for, although the Governor managed to disculpate himself in the eyes of the more candid-minded Iroquois leaders, yet there were great numbers of the people who could not be disabused, as is usual in such cases, even among civilized races. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
Ignored or abused by alcoholic parents, his desperate acts were the only way he could elicit any show of concern from them.
Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
Love is vulnerable to being abused by unscrupulous people who lie, cheat, betray and hate in the name of love. Dr T.P.Chia
His wife Mandy and then-18-month-old daughter Maisie were only yards away when he was abused and "mooned" at by young yobs after he went to confront them. Evening Mail news round-up
The decade has been trashed and abused and generally ostracized.
Erik Menendez claims his father sexually abused him from age 12 until just days before the killing.
Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio A man who sexually abused a schoolgirl has been given probation.
From TV shows where contestants are verbally abused to sports team hazing parties, humiliation is tolerated and even expected.
Populated by a cast of country drunkards, bigamists, abused women, children and the inevitable dog, these are homespun morality tales.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, which collectively service about half of all home loans, abused homeowners and violated the rules of the Making Home Affordable MHA program, Treasury said. Treasury To Temporarily Penalize Mortgage Companies, Making Good On Old Threat
She also testified that she feels that she is being abused when she is injected with medication by force.
In October 2000, the Post-Gazette asked judges in two counties to permit the press and public into two high-profile juvenile court cases involving abused and neglected children.
The corker was a woman who, in an initial interview, said she had never been sexually abused. Women Who Don’t Call It Rape
Andre Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel, criticised the Church for often worrying more about the reputation of priests and "abominably" exploiting the abused children, according to a copy of his Easter homily. The Times of India
He was whipped with a belt if he came in late to work, kicked and verbally abused.
And the rest of the time she carped, criticized, verbally and sometimes physically abused her adopted son while fawning obnoxiously over his ‘perfect’ sister.
Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
while she was pregnant, she abused drugs
And any reader who had imagined that her helter-skelter style was actually the product of careful contrivance will here be disabused.
The records also detail what Finnegan found during one of the zoo's darkest chapters, when one keeper reported in April 2000 that a colleague had abused Rose-Tu with an ankus.
A legal opiate analog such as methadone may be substituted for the abused opiate, with the methadone dosage then slowly reduced.
Crichton is pulled into the case, and the reader soon learns that the doctor will stop at nothing, due to her care for anyone abused and victimized, but also drawing in some history involving herself in an abusive situation. “Bloodborn” by Kathryn Fox (Harper, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog
To protect the abused wife's privacy, the court ordered that the couple couldn't be identified.
Most of the abused prisoners had no military intelligence value, Special Agent Worth said.
With the squeal of abused metal, it grated to a halt, engine still idling.
In interviews with NBC and The New York Times, he said he showered and horsed around with boys but never sexually abused them. Dottie Sandusky Issues Statement Supporting Husband, Jerry, Over Child Abuse Allegations
Two days after our return to Trinidad, a triumphant call disabused me of any idea of his suffering.
Several of the children had been sexually/physically/emotionally abused.
Social Welfare Minister Dermot Ahern said the figures showed people who abused the system were also defrauding taxpayers of money.
cully" too cruel a reproach to the men, for their abused weakness for us. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
They pointed out that many cough syrups were already being abused in the state, with young people consuming them as intoxicants.
The vartabed who performed this service, used language fitted to stir up the worst passions of the people; many of whom being partially intoxicated, became so enraged that when the brother was conducted to the vartabed's room they grossly abused him, not only by words, but by blows and spitting in his face. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
They just sentenced this woman to hang for killing her boyfriend, who she says routinely abused her.
She may be verbally abused, talked about negatively and/or publicly shamed.
This is so because some drugs that are being abused are not only dangerous but pose a very serious threat to life and society's moral fibre.
Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
Residents-only parking in Witham is to be reviewed after complaints that the scheme is being abused.
After being repeatedly abused, the boy escapes, but something inside him is damaged for life.
In 1999 Mr Walsh was suspended after an allegation that he had verbally abused a 10-year-old choirboy during rehearsals.
Even though he never physically abused me, the verbal abuse was frightening.
My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
The state gives the freedom to people to abuse themselves with alcohol, and then collectivizes taxes for the purpose of helping those who abused that freedom. Heroin Is Illegal, Except When The Government Buys It For You « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
But this argument cannot be dispositive because Baker itself involved a claim that a state had abused the power of drawing district lines.
He calls attention to corporate sanctioned sweat shops, and abused and underpaid store employees.
The judge said Vetch had abused the trust of those who had given him a free hand to run their financial affairs.
Children abused or seriously neglected in childhood often exhibit as adults a sociopathic inability to empathize with other people.
Williams abused his position as Mayor to give jobs to his friends.
Masterpiece is a much abused word, not least in the art business.
Let's hope that means an end to the most badly abused aspect of existing law: It forces the discharge of otherwise law-abiding service members whose sexual orientation is revealed by third parties such as jilted partners or spurned would-be lovers of the opposite sex. Local News from The Gainesville Sun
Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his student as an undergraduate.
He abused his power against the roster that rebelled against him, before being tombstoned to hell by the Undertaker.
Unfortunately it's a term that's currently being abused around the restaurant world, rather like the term confit which I've seen applied to tomatoes. Zucchini Velouté
He claimed drivers had been assaulted and abused while trying to pick up fares from the taxi rank.
I've seen playgrounds sporting old, abused equipment: swings with ropes that have multiple knots in them from retying the breaks, and splintered wooden seats.
Bag B held personal effects that included cosmetics, pepper spray, diaphragm, douche and an aspirin bottle that contained a yellow powder that preliminary toxicological examination has tentatively identified as clonidine, a blood pressure medication sometimes abused as a “knockout” pill. Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel
Why, even Hindu gods and goddesses can be abused freely!
Several of the children had been sexually/physically/emotionally abused.
Such malicious castigation, which is internalized by the abused person as true, crushes the spirit of the recipient, and they retreat from the life they were living to follow the script of their destruction -- becoming a self-imposed prophecy. Jack Watts: Recovering From Religious Abuse
Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused?
In a landmark case/decision, the Governor pardoned a woman convicted of killing her husband, who had physically abused her.
Potentially explosive subtext -- Annie was sexually abused as a child -- is pretty much left in the background.
‘One mental health nurse had been regularly abused and then started getting death threats,’ she said.
And sexually abused and physically battered kids run away from home.
The last time I had it, a woman reporter was humiliated and verbally abused in a National Football League locker room.
As far as the church's purification is concerned, Benedict has already been cleaning house, accepting the resignations of a few bishops in recent weeks who either admitted they sexually abused youngsters or covered up for priests who did. Pope sees sex scandal as greatest threat to Catholic church
The prince earlier visited Eluxolweni Shelter, a home for 48 abandoned, physically and sexually abused children - where he planted an avocado tree and unveiled a plaque.
No one seriously doubts that the citizenship provision adopted in 1998 has been roundly abused and should be changed.
All kinds of drugs can be abused, including illegal drugs (Cocaine, heroin), prescription drugs (tranquilizers or pain killers) and off-the-shelf medicines like cough mixtures.
I used to believe in meld until people disabused me of the notion. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
Jerky rhythms that do nothing more than prove these simians can count to five instead of four are used, overused and abused on each and every song.
The buildings stood forlorn and abused, with crackled paint chipped along the corners.
Yet another animal has been added to the list of those abused on a nearly unimaginable scale.
They're filthy, they rarely, if ever, have any lifesaving equipment, no life vests, they frequently run out of water and food and migrants are abused by the snakeheads acting as enforcers on these boats.
But what makes Courtney especially dangerous is not that he abused his position as a doctor.
So Janae has told Janelle that Karl has abused her, and then she's nicked off back to Colac while Karl faces the Spanish Inquisition.
All proceeds benefit homeless and abused animals at local shelters.
As might be expected, some people abused this system and reported the nosy neighbor (with the loud goat who brayed at 3 AM) as a heretic, just to try and get rid of them.
Several of the children had been sexually/physically/emotionally abused.
If they get abused every time they misplace a pass it means the next time the ball comes their way they will welcome it as much as a dose of flu.
Dim-witted because education held no escape, unstylish because poverty stalks the abused, these people are the spat out remains of a horrid meal.
Instead it gives the audience small doses of emotion and hastily toughens up the typical abused young woman.
Administrators at a number of nonpublic universities and colleges have abused their power, taking financial advantage of both students and their parents.
Stimulant treatment of ADHD has long been the subject of controversy, with some arguing that the drug is overprescribed and even dangerous because it can be abused.
Former investigating prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro faces charges he abused his.
Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: “I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.” Duh pookie
In their opinion, he belonged to that goodly class of persons, who, having by hook or by crook, contrived to spend an hour in the Abbe of Weimar’s presence, afterwards abused the sacred narre of pupil. Maurice Guest
Such magistracies ranged from feeding the homeless, enforcing sumptuary laws, protecting common lands, to protecting abused women, among other tasks.
Here's what all that turbodiesel torque can do to a pair of much-abused "whitewall" tires. Jalopnik
‘I have been verbally abused, spat on and threatened with violence on countless occasions,’ he says.
I leave you with one thought & a plausible end to fanatical religionist terrorism: Think green ecologically & economically green, a trillion dollar industry meeting all the requirements of unabused capitalism. Think Progress » FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News
He picked his bruised body gingerly off the floor, cursing as his abused hands twinged with pain.
The Clayton park site was abused by people dumping stacks of paper and crates of beer bottles on the ground instead of in the bin.
Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
This twisted notion that we would only observe our own laws, our own Constitution, our own Enlightenment Age ideals-if there was something in it for us, if we could somehow profit by it - appalls me. brought to mind something in a talk given by Sabine Willet (one of the attys for the Uighur and a commerical bankruptucy lawyer who felt compelled by the injustice to do something - while DOJ litigators felt compelled to lie to courts and continue to block habeas requests for men who their own files showed were innocent and had been abused and tortured bc of governmental policy that * no one leaves GITMO innocent*) Firedoglake
School officials said that prior to Thanksgiving there were no indications to teachers or other educators that the children were being abused.
'State of the art' is an abused term in manufacturing today.
She noted that exceptions usually made are for children under the age of 10 who have been sexually abused.
Though, when the American Association of University Women Foundation surveyed more than 1,600 students in eighth through 11th grade, 25 percent of the girls and 10 percent of the boys who said they had been harassed or abused said the harasser was a school employee. Michelle Malkin
Women have been regularly verbally abused and even had stones thrown at them.
It was the kind of yapping she associated with a terrier in need of discipline, and she wasn't disabused of this notion when four different locks were released and the opening door allowed a Jack Russell to charge forward, intent upon her ankles. With No One as Witness
The foundation has also helped a man, who has been regularly physically abused by his wife.
After the sixth subsequent season, the “abused” pitchers have outperformed their unabused matches by 816% 293-32. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
Janet had been abused by her father since she was eleven.
The case involved a woman who was denied legal aid having to cross-examine in court the man she alleged had physically abused her.
Among drug users, abused youth were significantly younger than their nonabused peers in mean age of onset of marijuana, cocaine, and uppers use.
To his eyes she appeared as lorn and abused as a battered child as he cleaned her gently and changed the sheets.
This man, however, sexually abused the boy and procured him for sex with foreigners.
Such a practice, by both the rancher finding the estray and the brand inspector, was regarded as a courtesy of the range, observed by all and rarely abused. Stands a Calder Man
I say this as one who works as a columnist for The Wanderer, the oldest and most venerable national Catholic weekly in America … the first and to a startling degree the onlyCatholic newspaper to sustainedly spotlight these abuses with definitude … investigators who belong to an organization called SNAP [Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests] … whom I interviewed repeatedly … have personal axes to grind against the Church beyond the immediate charges they make. Tom Roeser

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