maltreat

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold