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maltreatment

[ UK /mˌæltɹˈiːtmənt/ ]
[ US /mæɫˈtɹitmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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