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

There the President became a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and took an oath never to maltreat horse or dog.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"But you saw no person strike or maltreat this man who lies dead here?"

From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

She imperiously bids man sustain and reproduce himself, and this is one of the places where in the very act of obedience he wounds and maltreats her.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

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

Juvenile courts like the one handling Mary’s case recognize that providing safety, stability, and pathways to higher education and employment for youth who have been maltreated is crucial to their long-term well-being.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 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

And he, who had raised his master's daughter from the dead, did not disdain to work miracles of healing and of life on maltreated horses.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

“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

Think," some friend would say, as he returned her courteous bow—"think of casting upon that woman the suspicion of starving and maltreating her own house-servants!

From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable