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

There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

‘He came here from kindness, and there was no reason to maltreat him.’

From The Orange Fairy Book by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"But confess that your sister maltreats me, after I have tried so hard to please her."

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

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

"And who on that account maltreats you," interrupted Wanda, laughing.

From Venus in Furs by Fernanda Savage

Missis Rucker merely sets fire to Jennie about the way she maltreats Dave; an' she says Jennie's drivin' him locoed, an' no wonder.

From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

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

Juvenile courts like the one handling Mary’s case recognize that providing safety, stability, and pathways to higher education and employment for youth who have been maltreated is crucial to their long-term well-being.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2021

Thereupon, from every end and corner of her dominions, the maltreated and oppressed crowded towards her; the wranglers also, and litigious persons, and whoever had a legal cause against his neighbour.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle

“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