maltreat
Example Sentences
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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
The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another.
From Time Magazine Archive
A member of the Arctic Brotherhood who took oath never to maltreat horse or dog.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a mercy they did not maltreat the inmates.”
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
