ill-uses

• present tense form

  present tense

  Used to describe things happening now or regularly.

  of ill-use (3rd person singular).
  ill-use

  verb (used with object)

  to treat badly, unjustly, cruelly, etc.

Example Sentences

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ill-uses

The master of this animal never ill-uses him nor scolds him, and at feeding-time the dogs are always served before the men.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule

You'll be good to him, and stand his friend, and teach him seafaring ways, and you'll see that nobody ill-uses him.

From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith

That is, except when he is rude, and ill-uses me, and will not come and apologize!’

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

Mr. Watts is too modest in his behaviour, and for that reason the young tyrant despises and ill-uses him.

From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward

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