adjective

• Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
• (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
• (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
• Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
• Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
• (archaic) Catachrestic.