[
UK
/mˌæltɹˈiːtmənt/
]
[ US /mæɫˈtɹitmənt/ ]
[ US /mæɫˈtɹitmənt/ ]
NOUN
-
cruel or inhumane treatment
the child showed signs of physical abuse
How To Use maltreatment In A Sentence
- 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.
- Perhaps even more important, severe maltreatment could bring shame and dishonour on the neighbourhood.
- 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.
- Child maltreatment, abuse and victimization refer to the intentional assault of a child by a caretaker.
- And the charges he faces right now include assault, maltreatment, indecent acts, dereliction of duty, and conspiracy.
- He was acquitted of cruelty, maltreatment of a subordinate and indecent assault.
- We don't like thinking about child abuse and maltreatment.
- In Amsterdam, public notaries regularly recorded women's statements about the insulting maltreatment of their husbands.
- Care to explain how Europe could have settled “underpopulated” North America without “maltreatment” of the natives? The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews