His lips curled contemptuously as he used the abusive French term jaunes.

The term 'drives' coming into general use as a mildly abusive term has been credited to Healey following comments in his autobiography.

I cannot recall your ever having abused me directly and in downright abusive terms.

The sermon was directed against the circus, denouncing it in very abusive terms as an immoral and degrading institution.

But their talking put him out, and for a time he was certainly merely repeating abusive terms, "prancin' nincompoops" and the like, old terms and new.

It has been held, however, that refusing to answer questions in abusive terms may amount to obstruction.

Whigs' was the abusive term directed at those who wanted to exclude James on the grounds that he was a Roman Catholic.

I'm asking him not to use an abusive term favourited by bullies.

Please refrain from using the unscientific and abusive term 'denier' to describe the unconvinced and unpersuaded.