Thesaurus / ill-treat

ill-treat

How to use ill-treat in a sentence

You can't ill-treat a woman; you can't damage her features and knock her teeth out.

Although this proclamation was made, yet the people did not cease to ill treat us, and cry after us, as we went along.

She was an angel, Sanders went about whining when he had no longer a woman to ill-treat.

He begged them not to ill-treat a friendless boy; but to let him return176 home in safety.

The 'prentices now began to insult and ill-treat them as they passed along the street, and several fled from the city.

BYGONE LONDONFREDERICK ROSS

The fact that they do not do so, is at least negative evidence that the white men do not ill treat the people.

In spite however of the most stringent rules the officials of the private companies undoubtedly ill-treat the natives sometimes.

They had torn from the buggy everything that he might have converted into a covering: otherwise, they did not ill-treat him.

GRIFB. L. (BENJAMIN LEOPOLD) FARJEON

Many people say, "It is no business of mine if people ill-treat their own animals."

DAISYMIRANDA ELIOT SWAN

Is he afraid that some one will ill-treat him, or is he shy of coming inside the house at all?

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985