ill-use

Example Sentences

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"She did not ill-use me. Indeed, I do not believe that she ever knew that I was there at all. Is that not peculiar?"

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

I have not the slightest wish that you should ill-use them.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

Heathcliff pretended not to believe her, but Isabel was her brother's heir, and to marry her, inherit Edgar's money, and ill-use his sister, would, indeed, be a fair revenge on Catharine's husband.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)

Yes, we may so ill-use our bodies that the watchman sleeps at his post!

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

I never saw even the most unfortunate settler ill-use his beast, though all young plow oxen and half-broken broncos, besides a good many old ones, are sufficiently exasperating.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold