Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

nonabusively en · ADV

Etymology

From nonabusive + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a nonabusive manner.
    • President Obama is O.K. with this (he calls it “prolonged detention”), but he wants to make sure it is carried out — here comes the oxymoron — fairly and nonabusively. 2009 June 23, Bob Herbert, “Who Are We?”, in New York Times: