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maltreat
/ mælˈtriːt /
verb
- tr to treat badly, cruelly, or inconsiderately
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Derived Forms
- malˈtreatment, noun
- malˈtreater, noun
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Other Words From
- mal·treat·er noun
- mal·treat·ment noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of maltreat1
C18: from French maltraiter
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Example Sentences
My whole theme was the way we maltreat royal persons, making them one superhuman, and yet less than human.
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The teacher himself is accustomed to maltreat the boys and whip them mercilessly.
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You not only pay another man to take away your means of health, you usually maltreat him.
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If it is rather general to hate Nature and maltreat women, we begin to see why the world is a mad world.'
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It is forbidden to maltreat the inoffensive portion of the population.
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And why should anybody desire to so maltreat and frighten her?
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