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

Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire to achieve.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was so enraged at this neglect on the part of England, that he began to maltreat the missionaries and consuls of that country.

From Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic

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

If one boy maltreats another, within school-bounds, or within school-hours, that is a matter for me to settle.

From The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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

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

On June 6, when the special debate began, Bishop Verot of Savannah in Georgia was the speaker who incurred the peculiar displeasure of the Court party, and was maltreated by Bilio.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger

“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

Isaac Comnenus, a Greek, who called himself Emperor of the island, had behaved with great discourtesy, forbidding the poor princesses to land, and maltreating the crews of the vessels that had been cast ashore.

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Mary Yonge