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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire to achieve.

From Time Magazine Archive

He leaped from his throne and rushed toward Zopyrus, demanding who had dared to maltreat one of his generals in such a manner.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob