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
There the President became a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and took an oath never to maltreat horse or dog.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You saw no one strike or maltreat the deceased."
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
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
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
Missis Rucker merely sets fire to Jennie about the way she maltreats Dave; an' she says Jennie's drivin' him locoed, an' no wonder.
From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis
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
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
“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
The longer I live, the more I see that we are never so near a reverse of Fortune as when she is favorable, or so near receiving favors as when she is maltreating us.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
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