maltreat

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

A member of the Arctic Brotherhood who took oath never to maltreat horse or dog.

From Time Magazine Archive

The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why are they so prone to maltreat the weeping willow, the loveliest of trees?

From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But confess that your sister maltreats me, after I have tried so hard to please her."

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

The young girl pleading God's cause was unreasonable with the old man, as a spoilt child sometimes maltreats its mother.

From Ursula by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

"And who on that account maltreats you," interrupted Wanda, laughing.

From Venus in Furs by Fernanda Savage

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

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

The film’s smartest insights come from observing how maltreated children bear their secrets.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

Juvenile courts like the one handling Mary’s case recognize that providing safety, stability, and pathways to higher education and employment for youth who have been maltreated is crucial to their long-term well-being.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2021

Down went Gerard on his knees and followed the maltreated innocents directly, and transferred them tenderly to his purse.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

“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

The incident of a boy playing too roughly with his companions and being told by them to go and avenge his father instead of maltreating them is very widespread.

From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Nora Kershaw