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

Other people who wore straw hats in October get removed from under them more or less violently; but, somehow, no one had felt called upon to maltreat Ole.

From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George