maltreat

Bosses and colleagues who maltreat subordinates with ridicule or lack of consideration are as common as the companies who protect them.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022

“How can you maltreat such a beautiful woman?” he was said to have asked the errant husband.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2019

"But they didn't maltreat us, and the food was kind of O.K."

From Time Magazine Archive

A member of the Arctic Brotherhood who took oath never to maltreat horse or dog.

From Time Magazine Archive

Should her husband attempt to maltreat her, she has courage enough to separate from him and return to self-support.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various

To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

The young girl pleading God's cause was unreasonable with the old man, as a spoilt child sometimes maltreats its mother.

From Ursula by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

He is indeed," Oswald affirmed, "he is a particular friend of mine--if any one among the people about here maltreats him, he always applies to me.

From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin

Yet I daresay he means well, and I am thoroughly amused with him, except when he maltreats his horse.

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Poor man, why is Poseidon so wroth with thee that he maltreats thee thus?

From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

They have described using such tools as a moral imperative, insisting that child welfare officials should draw from all data at their disposal to make sure children aren’t maltreated.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

Aruma spends most of his time relaxing in hammocks, though Ossio says that during the pandemic the center has seen a rise in animals who were trafficked, maltreated or abandoned.

From Reuters ● Feb. 2, 2022

The film’s smartest insights come from observing how maltreated children bear their secrets.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

No matter what, indigenous women have to deal with the fact that our stories occasionally will be maltreated even after we reach assemblages of success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2018

He tells how he maltreated it, knocked it from the mantel, smothered it with blankets, and there is a note of almost paternal exultation in his voice when he describes its persistence in ringing.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer

“If people continue maltreating the sacred lake like this, it will expand again and drown all the villages and towns around it.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

"Why are you harassing him and why are you maltreating not only him, but his family and an entire nation that is free and proud."

From Fox News ● Jan. 15, 2022

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone," Huxley wrote in the novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2016

McDermott, who was not implicated in the SOS scandal, was charged with four department violations, including bringing discredit on the department and disrespecting or maltreating a person on or off duty.

From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 17, 2014

"If he had not interfered when he saw you maltreating his young schoolfellow, I should have been ashamed of him," said the teacher.

From Only an Irish Boy Andy Burke's Fortunes by Horatio Alger