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ill-usage

NOUN
  1. cruel or inhumane treatment
    the child showed signs of physical abuse

How To Use ill-usage In A Sentence

  • But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
  • Her father mistook her dispassionateness for a veil of politeness over a sense of ill-usage. A Pair of Blue Eyes
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