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What does abusively mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word abusively? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
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It followed an incident when James's sister, Vicky, was upset when abusively insulted.
I looked around the circle for support, but they all agreed, some abusively, that I should go.
He doesn't seem to mind that to shout abusively at someone on a one-to-one basis, for no other reason than they disagree with what he's saying, is bad manners.
It would need to be hateful, not merely irreverent, comment, abusively discriminatory, not merely impious or irreligious.
He continued shaking her abusively as he still yelled at her.
What exactly is the etiquette of sitting next to someone on the train who is noisily and abusively breaking up with their boyfriend on a mobile phone?

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