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ill-treatment

NOUN
  1. cruel or inhumane treatment
    the child showed signs of physical abuse

How To Use ill-treatment In A Sentence

  • Placing a child in public care is sometimes the only solution to ill-treatment in the natural home.
  • They deny allegations that torture and ill-treatment are widespread.
  • He still loyal to his kindred despite their ill-treatment.
  • But, to make them blessings, you must act your part well; for they may, by your neglect, your ill-treatment, your evil example, be made to be the _contrary of blessings_; instead of pleasure, they may bring you pain; instead of making your heart glad, the sight of them may make it sorrowful; instead of being the staff of your old age, they may bring your gray hairs in grief to the grave. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
  • It also increases the incidence of false confessions by placing the detainee in a situation where he or she may experience physical or mental torture, or serious ill-treatment.
  • Placing a child in public care is sometimes the only solution to ill-treatment in the natural home.
  • His ill-treatment of her relatives is surely the quickest way to revenge her.
  • Critics last night warned that consigning the sprawling army camp to history would not defuse the furious row over the ill-treatment meted out to teenagers entrusted to the care of commanders at the site.
  • Not only will the bloom of crowded plants be comparatively poor and brief, but by early and bold thinning the plants will become so robust, and cover such large spaces of ground with their ample leafage and well-developed flowers, as really to astonish people who think they know all about annuals, and who may have ventured after much ill-treatment to designate them 'fugacious and weedy.' The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
  • Placing a child in public care is sometimes the only solution to ill-treatment in the natural home.
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