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 England you may not maltreat your own dog or cat.
From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.
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 Savage, Fernanda
The young girl pleading God's cause was unreasonable with the old man, as a spoilt child sometimes maltreats its mother.
From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
"But confess that your sister maltreats me, after I have tried so hard to please her."
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
She imperiously bids man sustain and reproduce himself, and this is one of the places where in the very act of obedience he wounds and maltreats her.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
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
Aruma spends most of his time relaxing in hammocks, though Ossio says that during the pandemic the center has seen a rise in animals who were trafficked, maltreated or abandoned.
From Reuters ● Feb. 2, 2022
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
Because of that, a pediatrician might encourage preventative psychotherapy or, more draconically, perhaps child services will check in to ensure he’s not being maltreated.
From Slate ● May 23, 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 Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
“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
"If it's over the money you're knocking me about like this, you're maltreating an innocent man; for I had it from Parson Whitmore—every penny."
From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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