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- adjective Not
abusive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For the same reason that it would be wrong for you to insert your preferences regarding any nonabusive/neglectful parental activity.
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Specifically, you say that male circumcision is nonabusive.
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Specifically, you say that male circumcision is nonabusive.
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Plenty of things are a waste of time: abusive relationships, dead-end nonabusive relationships, manipulative relationships, one-sided relationships.
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Mendy Writes: I have a friend that has stayed with her nonabusive alcoholic husband as he battles with recovery.
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I have a friend that has stayed with her nonabusive alcoholic husband as he battles with recovery.
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She urges nonabusive men, stating that in 95 percent of cases the abusers are men, to stand up and say that abuse is not OK.
ABC News: ABCNews 2009
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It’s so nice when I visit him … he just sits there, nodding and staring, quiet and nonabusive.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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It’s so nice when I visit him … he just sits there, nodding and staring, quiet and nonabusive.
365 tomorrows » The Thank You Note : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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It’s also possible, of course, that there are cases in which an abusive woman would have murdered her nonabusive boyfriend or husband, except that he was unjustly arrested, therefore saving him.
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