Usually means: In a harsh and aggressive manner.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. abrasively: Merriam-Webster
  2. abrasively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abrasively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abrasively: Vocabulary.com
  5. abrasively: Wordnik
  6. abrasively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. abrasively: Wiktionary
  8. abrasively: Dictionary.com
  9. abrasively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrasively: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrasively: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abrasively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. abrasively: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abrasively)

adverb:  In an abrasive manner; in a rude and unkind manner; acting in a way that may hurt other people's feelings.
adverb:  Hardly; roughly; in a rough manner.

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