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  • Hillary is abbrasive, negative, very harsh and devisive.

    Schneider: Obama makes gains with women 2008

  • The necessary precautions to use Be products alone, but to considder using it in an abbrasive, dust producing situation is abhorrent.

    CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries Jaguar 2010

  • I fear that if this gentleman is just your basic self-centered, abbrasive dick, he will simply take your information about the humiliation he put the marketing guy through and the undue deference his bosses may be extending to him and think,

    Ask MetaFilter 2010

  • ALW is hideously awkward at times, but I generally agree with his eloquent comments, Lulu - although abbrasive - is a great judge (as we saw on The Xtra Factor), and Arlene Phillips, while famous to the general public only since her Strictly tenure - has a CV longer than War and Peace.

    unknown title 2009

  • Meths seems the most likely alternative, though I don't know if it disolves coatings or is abbrasive to them in any way?

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) 2009

  • Hopefully the story will be more cohesive than the latter and a bit less abbrasive than the former.

    unknown title 2008

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