23 Metaphors for abuse

The abuse of a plan is no argument against its use.

SECONDLY, Another great abuse of words is INCONSTANCY in the use of them.

Abuse, after it has occurred, might be a justifiable reason for suspending the exercise of an admitted right, until some remedies were applied to prevent their recurrence, but it can never be urged as a proper argument against the right itself.

A real abuse, however, is the perpetual dictation-system still used by some.

V. FIFTHLY, Another abuse of words is, THE SETTING THEM IN THE PLACE OF THINGS WHICH THEY DO OR CAN BY NO MEANS SIGNIFY.

Gov. I do not abuse ye: Is it abuse, to give him drink that's thirsty?

When this power is secretly exercised, the abuses become still more grave.

The abuse of it is the essential and fundamental wrong.

" "The abuse of hospitality is the last refuge of the needy," continued De Chauxville oracularly.

"The abuses and correction of same is a mere detail in the general scheme." ...

But, Christians, to speak with the Holy Spirit, this has happened to the Jews only as a figure; it is only the shadow of the fearful curses of which the abuse of the merits and passion of the Son of God must be to us the source and the measure.

And, after all, abuse is pleasanter than contemptuous and silent neglect.

Abuse of the Mullahs was dangerousas dangerous to listen to as to speak.

Money in one hand, and abuse in t'otherthose are all the arts we know.

Even granting that Slavery were all that its apologists assume it to be, and that the relation of master and slave were of God's appointing, would not its abuses be just the thing which it was the duty of Christian men to protest against, and, as far as might be, to root out?

For two hundred years the abuses connected with these corporations had been subjects of complaint, but could not easily be remedied, in consequence of the perversion of municipal institutions to political ends.

He was of the opinion, however, that certain abuses which might ensue, were immoralities to be prevented or punished by all proper means, both by the Church discipline and the civil law.

Another abuse of language is an AFFECTED OBSCURITY; by either applying old words to new and unusual significations; or introducing new and ambiguous terms, without defining either; or else putting them so together, as may confound their ordinary meaning.

Perhaps her abuse of the divine Clio, the suspected instigator of his attacks upon her, may have been an unforgivable offense.

V. FIFTHLY, Another abuse of words is, THE SETTING THEM IN THE PLACE OF THINGS WHICH THEY DO OR CAN BY NO MEANS SIGNIFY.

I believe something of this kind existed under the old government, the abuses of which are the only parts the republic seems to have preserved.

[Footnote 4: The abuse of coincidence is a legacy to modern drama from the Latin comedy, which, again, was founded on the Greek New Comedy.

A strong opinion is, however, expressed that the occasional abuse of the flag of any nation is an evil far less to be deprecated than would be the establishment of any regulations which might be incompatible with the freedom of the seas.

23 Metaphors for  abuse