maltreat
verb (used with object)
to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse.
had maltreated
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past perfectof maltreat.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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To refute these charges, the Yugoslavs invited reporters to the bedside of ailing defendant Krasilnikov, who showed no evidence that Tito's police had maltreated him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S., in turn, charged that Havana had maltreated 22 imprisoned Americans by failing not only to provide "needed foods and medicines," but by preventing the neutral Swiss from helping the prisoners.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ornias, the vampire spirit who had maltreated Solomon's servant, was the first demon to appear, and he was set to the task of cutting stones near the Temple.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin
"I'm an ill-used woman," she replied with a groan, behaving as if it was my father who had maltreated her, and whose duty it was to make an apology for it.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
It was all the more unexpected as he knew that the Kapellmeister was an intimate friend of Brahms and others whom he had maltreated in his criticisms.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan
