Possible Clues:

• Use unkindly
• Might one get the hard stuff about at this and do it the wrong way?
• Abuse the whiskey with a tear
• May bully one, but Mother will stand a round for about fifty (8)
• Abuse - awful matter involving a learner
• Out of control rate on Scottish alcohol abuse
• Use roughly later, mat that had been shaken
• Abuse the latter unfairly, to a degree
• Behave cruelly towards
• Abuse alcohol: consume without restraint at the start