(v. t.) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.
(v. t.) To use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.
(v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.
(v. t.) To dishonor.
(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
(v. t.) To deceive; to impose on.
(v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.
(v. t.) Physical ill treatment; injury.
(v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.
(v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(3) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(4) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(5) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(6) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(7) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(8) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(9) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(10) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(11) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(12) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(13) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(14) Its abuse has become concentrated among post-high school age, black males in a limited number of cities, especially Washington, DC.
(15) From a clinical standpoint, it is clear that psychiatrists caring for anxious patients must be aware of the possibility of secondary alcohol abuse.
(16) A thorough nursing assessment is essential to detect and correct drug misuse and to diagnose drug abuse.
(17) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
(18) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
(19) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(20) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
Traduce
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants.
(v. t.) To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works.
(v. t.) To increase or distribute by propagation.
(v. t.) To draw away; to seduce.
(v. t.) To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of.
(v. t.) To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
Example Sentences:
(1) Look further and you see people in faked approximations of designer logos – that they've been traduced doesn't detract from their meaning; it gives them a new story.
(2) The most powerful in the land had helped to perpetuate a media culture that allowed decent people to be traduced (there's a word your rarely hear in real life) "out of casual malice, for money, for spite, for sport.
(3) Yet, from his reaction, which was in the familiar non-apology apology of “I am sorry if I have caused offence, I should never have said such a thing in front of journalists”, it appears that he thinks it is he who has been in some way traduced, confounded by that dratted tendency of women not to get the joke.
(4) Frequently, this involves traducing the messenger as much as examining the message.
(5) It is depressing to hear union leaders deliberately misrepresent the government's reforms and traduce Michael Gove, whose respect for teaching and passion for improving the lot of the most disadvantaged children should be an inspiration to everyone involved in education.
(6) The results are traduced by different colours or by coloured ligns.
(7) Greece's determination in this World Cup was a thing to behold and, their reputation unfairly traduced, they brought a fair bit of quick-breaking flair to the table too.
(8) I really value the mateship that Peter O'Neill has shown to Australia on this.” The following day he said: “The co-operation that we are getting from PNG is a real act of mateship on their part and I’m really thrilled by it.” It’s a sort of Orwellian parallel reality: people held in dreadful conditions, two government conspiring to traduce their rights and suppress as much information as they can, and no one having the slightest clue about the future of people who really did flee persecution – while Abbott declares it’s been “a very successful visit”.
(9) I’m dismayed, frankly, because, with all the hard work that we put into trying to reform the fisheries industry and trying to get sustainable fishing back on the agenda, and trying to save fish stocks from their inevitable collapse they were heading towards, all that work is being traduced.” Richard Lochhead, the former Scottish fisheries minister who represents Moray, north-east Scotland, said: “Our fishermen will be gobsmacked by the irony of [Michael] Gove’s belated concerns for the fishing industry, given it was the Tories that negotiated such a poor deal for our fishermen in the first place while other nations got better deals.
(10) And the essence of this is that there must be a cheap, easy, independent and reliable arbitration process to force speedy prominent corrections on newspapers, and deliver ample compensation in a timely fashion to those who have been traduced.
(11) His young starting strike force of Ji Dong-won and Connor Wickham were subjected to the lion's share of the opprobrium in the wake of their side's reverse and will have been dismayed by the manner in which their work rate, character and intelligence were traduced.
(12) Struan Stevenson , a Tory MEP for Scotland from 1999 to 2014 and a former chair of the European parliament’s fisheries committee, said Michael Gove was guilty of “traducing” the EU and of “trotting out an emotional story as propaganda” to back the leave campaign.
(13) Not content with simply banning the film in its own country, the Iranian government complained to Unesco that it traduced Iran’s national dignity.
(14) For Coetzee, the result reflected a debasement of Britain’s political culture: the traducing, with media complicity, of rational discourse by a leave campaign that targeted the very idea of factual argument.
(15) Visibly agitated by the idea that the current system of self-regulation can continue, he adds: "Many people say celebrities live by publicity and if they get the wrong sort they can't be entirely surprised, but what one is concerned by is when innocent people are traduced by the media.
(16) But instead he was suspended and the home secretary has spent two days basically traducing him and damning him."
(17) The Sun 's coverage has been hostile ever since, offering unqualified support for British troops while traducing their political masters.
(18) Like George Orwell, he had a deep love of England and the English, believing that our green and pleasant land was being traduced by a petty-minded army of bureaucrats.
(19) And it is about whether this house will be supine when its members phones are hacked, or about whether it will take action when the democratic right of MPs to do their job without illegal let, hindrance or interception has been traduced.
(20) There was nothing improper about meeting a demand by an employer to secure their leave.” Tim Dutton QC, for the SRA, said British troops involved in the Battle of Danny Boy had “their reputations traduced” at a press conference given by Day in 2008 at which the allegations were first made in public.