maltreat
verb (used with object)
to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse.
maltreater
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a word derived from
maltreat.
Example Sentences
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It was thus that Balaam, the maltreater of horses, learned to address me when he came a two days' journey to pay a visit.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
