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
The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But they didn't maltreat us, and the food was kind of O.K."
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you suppose that any woman who has laid her first-born in its coffin could be brutal enough to maltreat poor little motherless lambs?
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
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