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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"Mercy me!" called out the Bishop, seeking to escape, "here are those rascal fellows who did maltreat me so in Sherwood."

From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 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

"There were those who treated us like humans, they understood us and sympathised with us. I can’t say that everyone was bad and maltreated us. It depended on the person," she said.

From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 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

The adherents of the different doctors had reviled, anathematised, and maltreated each other without their quarrels making any noise.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

“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

As he went away he said, "Someone ought to get six month's hard labour for maltreating him."

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson