maltreat

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It might have been wise to deprive a too ambitious bishop of his castle, but it was not wise personally to maltreat the clergy.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson