A gross abuse of authority: he should have dealt with it firmly.
"But any gross physical abuse is likely to kill the patient."
The Times, in an editorial, described the episode as a "gross abuse of power."
It would have been a gross abuse of official power.
He termed the case as a gross abuse of the judicial system and an error in law.
"The payments the county stopped were a gross abuse of taxpayer dollars."
But while the gross abuse appears to have stopped, conditions remain far from acceptable.
What is going on before our very eyes is a gross abuse of human rights.
To lawyers, "fully and fairly" means anything short of gross abuse.
After a few years in this function he was arrested and convicted for gross abuse of his office.
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