What's the difference between abusive and billingsgate?
Abusive
Definition:
(a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
(a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
(a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.
(a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
(a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
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.
Billingsgate
Definition:
(n.) A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
(n.) Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.
Example Sentences:
(1) He did not answer questions about Henley Concierge, but said he was invited to the 2013 event, which took place at Old Billingsgate market, City of London.
(2) Billingsgate, for example, raised £250,000 in table charges before the event even began.
(3) The court of common council was voting to abolish "the fellowship of the Billingsgate porters" which has been recognised since 1632.
(4) Meanwhile, between the towers of Canary Wharf and Billingsgate, displacing the water from the dock, the first embryonic Crossrail station has already taken shape.
(5) He added, "as we know, there are more than enough tossers in Billingsgate market".
(6) It is possible to buy UK-caught crayfish, online from the likes of simplycrayfish.co.uk , and markets such as Billingsgate, while Pret and The Big Prawn Company say they would consider selling a line of UK-caught crayfish if there was demand.
(7) He stayed charming at Billingsgate market where I tested his knowledge of our most common commercial fish species, and remained polite and courteous while I hassled him in his constituency office for more ambitious marine protection around the coast of the UK.
(8) "The Billingsgate porters are one of the most ancient workforces in the country and the Corporation of London wants to make them redundant.
(9) The debate about why Labour went wrong and how it can become stronger is of the highest importance in renewing a movement that can resist the power that robbed the Billingsgate porters of their civic inheritance.
(10) Auction proceeds and table charges will bring in directly around £1m, but after Billingsgate last year another £1.1m was registered as donations in the week after the event.
(11) The venue was the former fishmarket at Old Billingsgate.
(12) He turns 60, or as he quips turns 40, this year (a party in Billingsgate is planned), but now has a seven-month-old daughter, Angel, with his girlfriend, Joy Canfield.
(13) The even is in Old Billingsgate market hall, where there is also a live link to New York.
(14) We used a traditional butcher for our meat, and went to Billingsgate market for our fish.
(15) The veteran actor Timothy West has also joined the show as Carter's father Stan, a curmudgeonly and opinionated former Billingsgate fishmonger.
(16) As white-coated staff wheel racks of hanging cured salmon into the vast kilns for smoking, proprietor Lance Forman explains the London Cure method began when a relative discovered fresh wild Scottish salmon at nearby Billingsgate, and developed a cure that complemented its flavour.
(17) He also paid for two tables at last year's Conservative fundraiser at Old Billingsgate market where, according to the guest plan, invitees included U&C chairman Brooks Newmark MP and Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Tory hopeful who is bidding to win the marginal seat of Berwick-on-Tweed, currently held by the Lib Dems.
(18) There are moments of levity: when Bill Lincoln is giving evidence about his alibi (buying fish at Billingsgate market on Good Friday), it transpires that he is known by friends as “Billy the Fish”; James Creighton, the mate he meets when he has his regular Turkish bath, and who gives evidence on his behalf, is known as “Jimmy Two Baths”.
(19) Smoked salmon is indeed delicious, but wreaks havoc with your ability to charm – difficult to make friends when you smell like the insoles of a Billingsgate fish trader.
(20) Meanwhile the design of its silver pods is offensively indifferent to the dignified buildings, such as Old Billingsgate Market, on which they intrude, and actually do not seem well suited to the events that might go on inside them.