"Unfortunately for you, he shares my distaste for wife abusers."

Mr. Shata settles dowries, confronts wife abusers, brokers business deals and tries to arrange marriages.

The "supporting cast" included junkies, would-be suicides, wife abusers and other ordinary denizens of urban decay.

Originally, the character was "a despicable, contemptible, unfaithful wife abuser" who was intended to be killed off.

The prosecutor also claimed that Willingham was a serial wife abuser, both physically and emotionally.

Studies show that wife abusers, serial killers and other misfits often have a history of animal abuse in their background.

In The Color Purple, released in 1985, the husband is a savage wife abuser.

Created by William J. Bell as a "despicable, contemptible, unfaithful wife abuser", the character was planned to be killed off and never heard of again.

It is the silent, stalking marauder in the dark or the bullying repressive wife abuser who are to be feared.

Young bullies supposedly grow into sociopaths, angry drunks, wife abusers or maybe mayors of major East Coast cities.