Harassive

Quick meaning: Harassive is an adjective meaning Characterized by the tendency to harass; tending to harass; constituting or pertaining to harassment.

Meaning

Characterized by the tendency to harass; tending to harass; constituting or pertaining to harassment.

Example Sentences

The hypothesis that women generally perceive sexually harassive conduct in the workplace to be unacceptable is clearly supported by these results.

Specifically, former Supervisor (Christie) indicated having "warned" Grievant J_ about his harassive behavior toward the female approximately three (3) to four (4) months prior to her submission of the complaint.

A set of jointly necessary and sufficient conditions of sexual harassment are defended which purport to capture the more subtle instances of sexual harassment while circumventing those sexual advances that are not sexually harassive.

A person's dignity can be violated without causing an harassive environment and an harassive environment may not necessarily violate an individual's dignity. Harassive in this context meaning - hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive.

Synonyms for harassive

Depending on context, synonyms include hindering, bullying.

Antonyms for harassive

Common opposites include supportive, friendly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tormentous, hindering, invasive, adversarial, perturbatious, violative.

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