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

The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another.

From Time Magazine Archive

I then went to complain to the governor, and he told me that I had only got what I deserved, and that it would teach me to maltreat honourable gentlemen who used my house.'

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various