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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The receipt of the news seems to have deprived the Carthaginians of all their natural intelligence; for their first step was to maltreat the envoys.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

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

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

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

With these statements the cross-examination of the same Francesca, when arrested in her flight, agrees; in it we nowhere read that she was maltreated, nor that she ever complained of that home of decent poverty.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

“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

This plan of dealing gently with Protestants, while so maltreating their pastors as to make public worship or the administration of sacraments very difficult, was a favourite one with French churchmen.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell