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
There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this, their inferior officers imitate them and maltreat and fleece the poor countrymen.
From Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' by José Rizal
To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And who on that account maltreats you," interrupted Wanda, laughing.
From Venus in Furs by Fernanda Savage
"But confess that your sister maltreats me, after I have tried so hard to please her."
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
Poor man, why is Poseidon so wroth with thee that he maltreats thee thus?
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
We have, however, hitherto seen only how the single bourgeois maltreats the proletariat upon his own account.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
They have described using such tools as a moral imperative, insisting that child welfare officials should draw from all data at their disposal to make sure children aren’t maltreated.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
"There were those who treated us like humans, they understood us and sympathised with us. I can’t say that everyone was bad and maltreated us. It depended on the person," she said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2022
The film’s smartest insights come from observing how maltreated children bear their secrets.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
No matter what, indigenous women have to deal with the fact that our stories occasionally will be maltreated even after we reach assemblages of success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
It is true they put upon me a good deal of their drudgery; but only my legs suffered from the errands they sent me on, and I cannot recall ever being injured or maltreated.
From Iermola by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
“If people continue maltreating the sacred lake like this, it will expand again and drown all the villages and towns around it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
"Why are you harassing him and why are you maltreating not only him, but his family and an entire nation that is free and proud."
From Fox News ● Jan. 15, 2022
"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone," Huxley wrote in the novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2016
McDermott, who was not implicated in the SOS scandal, was charged with four department violations, including bringing discredit on the department and disrespecting or maltreating a person on or off duty.
From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 17, 2014
It was like running the p. 41gauntlet; every one, great or small, pinching, kicking, or otherwise maltreating me as I passed by.
From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by William Knapp
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: mal
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