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
Yet you are but a child, knowing neither good nor evil, and all they can say against you is that you are the child of your parents; that is why they ill-treat you!
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
He did not ill-treat the lady, though left all alone with her.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
No, she cried often.—Did his lordship ever ill-treat her?
From Who? by Kent, Elizabeth
“Then I wish somebody would ill-treat me along that line,” I interjected.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
