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

"But they didn't maltreat us, and the food was kind of O.K."

From Time Magazine Archive

See, then, my dear young gentleman, how these bandits, these rebels, these demons, maltreat their poor bonne!

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.