ill-use

Example Sentences

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“I will not let them live for strangers to ill-use,” she thought—

From Literature

"She did not ill-use me. Indeed, I do not believe that she ever knew that I was there at all. Is that not peculiar?"

From Literature

"Oh, probably because she can ill-use it to her heart's content."

From Project Gutenberg

"They might ill-use him, and he's been ill-used more than enough already."

From Project Gutenberg

I never saw even the most unfortunate settler ill-use his beast, though all young plow oxen and half-broken broncos, besides a good many old ones, are sufficiently exasperating.

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