Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa—not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— a corrupt practice or custom
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— cruel, violent, or unfair treatment, especially of someone who does not have the power to prevent it
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— Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
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1 use of ‘abuse’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster