ill-treat
Example Sentences
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In these quotations, to vanquish foes and destroy enemies does not mean to ill-treat others in any way, or even to seek victory over them in a traditional sense.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2019
Why do you drive through the ditch, if you have a bridge within ten yards? and to ill-treat brown Lizzie!
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
“Then I wish somebody would ill-treat me along that line,” I interjected.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
You would not ill-treat me because you are gentle, noble, and forgiving.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
I care for their marches, for their wants and food, and protect their women and boys if they ill-treat them; and I do nothing of this.
From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Churchill, Seton
