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abusing

Meaning

of Abuse

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Thomas Babington Macaulay

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints. L. Ron Hubbard

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done. Booker T. Washington

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes-how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence. Daniel Keyes

As soon as the monkey has climbed a tree, it will start abusing from its elevated position. Namibian Proverb

As soon as the monkey has climbed a tree, it will start abusing from its elevated position. African Proverb

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