ill-treat
Example Sentences
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In these quotations, to vanquish foes and destroy enemies does not mean to ill-treat others in any way, or even to seek victory over them in a traditional sense.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2019
What man would under-feed, ill-treat, or poorly care for a horse that he expected to serve him, in return, promptly and well?
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Ballou, Maturin Murray
Why do you drive through the ditch, if you have a bridge within ten yards? and to ill-treat brown Lizzie!
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
They did not plunder or ill-treat the people, but they cared nothing for town life or for agricultural pursuits, and as they passed onward they left the country bare.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
“Then I wish somebody would ill-treat me along that line,” I interjected.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
