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
There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
How can I help it, when all tease, all maltreat me?—those ladies, that creature over there, Coronato, Moracchio, Limonato, and Crispino.
From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Goldoni, Carlo
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