Admiral regularly getting family abuse (8)
I believe the answer is:
diatribe
'abuse' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'admiral regularly getting family' is the wordplay.
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'getting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'family' becomes 'tribe' (I've seen this in other clues**).
The alternate letters of 'admiral' are 'dia'.
'dia'+'tribe'='DIATRIBE'
(Other definitions for diatribe that I've seen before include "Insults" , "A violent attack in words, abusive criticism" , "Loud verbal attack" , "Torrent of abuse" , "Bitter verbal attack" .)