maltreat

How To Use maltreat In A Sentence

• She had gone to that bungaloid mansion in Hampstead Garden Suburb certain she would find her patient kept under duress, perhaps even physically a prisoner, possibly maltreated, and she had been prepared to call the police and tell them here was someone detained against his will. Portobello
• Since many drivers and stablemen were uninformed, and even human labourers were overworked and dismissed once they were ‘worn out’, it is not surprising that maltreatment of horses was common.
• To hurt or injure by maltreatment; ill-use.
• Michael Pennington invests the Don's medical sidekick with exactly the right air of terrified loyalty, Oliver Cotton exudes white-suited arrogance as a dictatorial master baker, and Gavin Fowler lends his maltreated son a simmering, murderous resentment. The Syndicate – review | Michael Billington
• Perhaps even more important, severe maltreatment could bring shame and dishonour on the neighbourhood.
• He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
• There was a link between parents who maltreated their children and those in physically abusive relationships with their partners.
• Graf was relieved of duty in January, after nearly two years on the Cowpens, for "cruelty and maltreatment" of her crew, according to a blistering Navy inspector general's report obtained by TIME.
• I don’t know whether you’ll find it traumatic, but reading accounts like these, of people abused and maltreated at the hands of physicians and systems who don’t understand them and would rather study them than help them — well, it makes me rather rageful, which is manifesting itself in an upset stomach. I kinda feel like it needs a warning « Love | Peace | Ohana
• Child maltreatment, abuse and victimization refer to the intentional assault of a child by a caretaker.