Difference between Insulting and Abusive

INSULTING vs ABUSIVE: ADJECTIVE

Expressing offensive reproach
Characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment
Characterized by improper or wrongful use.
Using or containing insulting or hurtful language.
Relating to or practicing sexual abuse.
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage
Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.
Causing physical injury to another.

Synonyms and Insolent, insultiug, offensive, scurrilous, ribald, reproachful, opprobrious, reviling.
Misleading, or tending to mislead; employed by misuse; improper.
Marked by or full of abuses; corrupt: as, an abusive exercise of power.
Practising abuse; using harsh words or ill treatment: as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow. Characterized by or containing abuse; marked by contumely or ill use; harsh; ill-natured; injurious.

Impugning, Disgraceful, Offended, Rude, Vulgar, Derogatory, Demeaning, Offensive, Disdainful, Opprobrious, Scornful, Abusive, Scurrilous, Contemptuous, Disrespectful

Predatory, Indecent, Obscene, Derogatory, Demeaning, Rude, Abused, Abuse, Inappropriate, Scurrilous, Offensive, Opprobrious, Scornful, Harmful, Insulting

Impugning, Disgraceful, Offended, Rude, Vulgar, Derogatory, Demeaning, Offensive, Disdainful, Opprobrious, Scornful, Abusive, Scurrilous, Contemptuous, Disrespectful

Predatory, Indecent, Obscene, Derogatory, Demeaning, Rude, Abused, Abuse, Inappropriate, Scurrilous, Offensive, Opprobrious, Scornful, Harmful, Insulting

Turkish Group Accuses German Paper of Insulting Islam.
Camilla says several more insulting things and leaves.
This has quite an insulting feel to it.
What a rude and insulting proposition that is.
It feels artificial, and sometimes a bit insulting.
The Republicans, in their turn, considered this insulting.
It was insulting to the industry and insulting to the workers it employs.
INSULTING, DEFAMATORY, OR OBSCENE LANGUAGEMembers of the department shall not use insulting, defamatory or obscenelanguage in the performance of their duties.
Drop all prosecutions and investigations for insulting speech and establish a clear policy that insulting someone, in itself, is never a criminal offense.
Throughout the year the government arrested several individuals on charges such as insulting the emir, insulting leaders of neighboring countries, or insulting the judiciary.

She is physically abusive as well as verbally abusive to all the dogs she continues to own.
The mom had an abusive boyfriend or some abusive guy in her life and the military guy would always get into fights with him.
Though the Interrogation Manual bars many forms of abusive treatment, its Appendix M still allows some abusive forms of sleep and sensory deprivation.
BIID talk about sad, pathetic childhoods or overbearing parents, abusive parents, abusive priests or psychologists, and the list goes on.
CFT students have represented clients in matters of abusive and unfair sales practices, auto loans and repossessions, mortgage foreclosure, and abusive debt collection.
Abusive Head Trauma Abusive head trauma is a theoretically preventable cause of infant morbidity and mortality.
Page of abusive and that the employee subjectivelyperceived the environment to be abusive.
Having domestic counseling services readily available can make people in abusive relationships feel more confident about leaving an abusive partner.
Maybe because before him, I only had abusive boyfriends, abusive parents and was bullied my whole life.
Abusive conducf generally It Is an abusive telemarket.