ill-use

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"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 "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Now he would have friends to love him, and nobody would scorn and ill-use him any more.

From Aunt Friendly's Picture Book. Containing Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim by Kronheim, Joseph Martin

Did the law give so much power to Mr. Thornton? and, provided he did not ill-use me, would it make me for four years the captive of his pleasure?

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia

The Federals thought the members of the Council wanted to abscond, and they were even about to ill-use them, when some one recognised Delescluze.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Heathcliff pretended not to believe her, but Isabel was her brother's heir, and to marry her, inherit Edgar's money, and ill-use his sister, would, indeed, be a fair revenge on Catharine's husband.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)