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How to use maltreat in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word maltreat? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He's charged with maltreating detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty and indecency.
Hence, for example, he is shocked if the police maltreat a criminal in order to secure a conviction.
The general belief is that parents who maltreat their children are rare, pathological and certainly not like us.
My whole theme was the way we maltreat royal persons, making them one superhuman, and yet less than human.
To abuse means to mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, treat badly, ill-use or misuse.
The government blames the problems on shady recruitment firms, which dock workers' pay for housing costs or otherwise maltreat them.
The self has a timeless behavior and it is able to maltreat the authority individual to get what it wants.
The man living with their mother is rarely their father and he can reject and maltreat children born of a previous union.
Parents who maltreat their children often come from harsh backgrounds themselves, including child abuse.
We have spinage in August but they maltreat it, cut the whole stock boil it bodily, mash fibre seeds and all with butter and pepper.
Not giving thanks to a stone or any energy it is in a way to betray it, to maltreat it.
Parents who maltreat their children are more likely to show such biases.
No parents or other adults should exploit, abuse or maltreat children.
Very soon, her employers started to maltreat her.
Sergeant Davis was charged with conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty for failing to protect detainees, maltreatment of detainees and making false statements.
Because children are dependent on the people who may also maltreat them, they face a paradoxical dilemma: They want the abuse to stop but they also long to belong to a family.
Further, as some caregivers who maltreat their children abuse substances themselves, risk is present even if environmental risks are minimized, as with the presence of a competent, non-substance abusing co-caregiver.
There is often a lot of scope for foreign companies to get involved, which then maltreat and exploit the environment and their employees to ruination.
In order to compensate for lack of affection, they maltreat their child, then pass themselves off as good mothers, highly concerned about the strange illness from which their child suffers.
We cannot accept that a violent man and his Saudi family can confine and maltreat a Canadian woman with such impunity, with the only purpose of extorting money.
Examples from Classical Literature
I do not really care how the naturalists maltreat language, but I do strenuously object to the earthiness of their ideas.
Consequently my uncle looked upon me as useless, and began to maltreat me again.
Now that men kiss the hands which maltreat them, it is the part of women to defy them.
If ever I see you maltreat a soldier I will report it at once to the commander of the regiment.
He wished to govern England in law and order, and not to maltreat the natives.
What we insisted on was that it is unwise to maltreat the Japanese on the surmise that they are unassimilable.
The dissentient, Bristed, says that to linch is in various northern English dialects, and means to beat or maltreat.
It was contrary to all the homely traditions at the farm to kill or maltreat a toad.
If we maltreat her we not only couldn't collect a sou, but they'd send us to prison for our pains.
Crosby was her property, to browbeat and maltreat as seemed best to her.
The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge one another.
You may maltreat him when I am away, but not before my eyes.
It was an heroic resolution, and shame that hunger should so maltreat it.
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