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
"But they didn't maltreat us, and the food was kind of O.K."
From Time Magazine Archive
The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an heroic resolution, and shame that hunger should so maltreat it.
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Sir Max Pemberton
To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is indeed," Oswald affirmed, "he is a particular friend of mine--if any one among the people about here maltreats him, he always applies to me.
From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 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
"But confess that your sister maltreats me, after I have tried so hard to please her."
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
Yet I daresay he means well, and I am thoroughly amused with him, except when he maltreats his horse.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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
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
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
“No, the tramps who maltreated you so, stole everything.”
From Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
“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
Attempts to destroy a nationality by overthrowing its government, proscribing its language, and maltreating its citizens, are never successful.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: mal
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