maltreats
- present tense form of maltreat (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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To a newcomer like Davenant, the experience is a trial that maltreats his body and corrodes his spirit.
From Time Magazine Archive
If one boy maltreats another, within school-bounds, or within school-hours, that is a matter for me to settle.
From The Story of a Bad Boy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Yet I daresay he means well, and I am thoroughly amused with him, except when he maltreats his horse.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
He is indeed," Oswald affirmed, "he is a particular friend of mine--if any one among the people about here maltreats him, he always applies to me.
From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Schubin, Ossip
Poor man, why is Poseidon so wroth with thee that he maltreats thee thus?
From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
