ill-use

How to use ill-use in a sentence

• It applies only to an ill-used man whose date (birth or death, &c.) was in 1506.

  Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

• Gilbert was not at all satisfied with the promise Dolly had given to his father; he thought himself slighted and ill-used.

  The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie

• Shortly after this the youngest apprentice went below, and found the ill-used lad standing on a locker, and gibbering fearfully.

  The Chequers | James Runciman

• They killed several peacocks; the enraged people fell upon them and ill-used them in such a way that they shortly afterwards died.

  A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer

• Do you remember the dead man143 whom his wicked creditors would fain have ill-used?

  Rudy and Babette | Hans Christian Andersen