maltreat

How To Use maltreat In A Sentence

• I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
• We review research on programs designed to promote family wellness and prevent the maltreatment of children.
• The charges include conspiracy, dereliction of duty, cruelty, maltreatment, assault and indecent acts with another.
• Non-governmental organization workers were also maltreated by the demonstrators.
• Perhaps even more important, severe maltreatment could bring shame and dishonour on the neighbourhood.
• * Sadistic Conception of the Sexual Act. * -- If children of so delicate an age become spectators of the sexual act between grown-ups, for which an occasion is furnished by the conviction of the grown-ups that little children cannot understand anything sexual, they cannot help conceiving the sexual act as a kind of maltreating or overpowering, that is, it impresses them in a sadistic sense. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
• A landowner could have his monument protected if he wished but he might prefer to maltreat it or destroy it completely.
• Better than paying Halliburton to maltreat our soldiers. Resplendent colors highlight setting for state dinner
• Henry David Thoreau agonized over pummeling a chestnut with a stone to bring down its nuts: "It is not innocent, it is not just, so to maltreat the tree that feeds us," he wrote in his journal on Oct. 23, 1855. The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback
• On the other hand, the program of slave labor is described as an unending process of humiliation, harassment, maltreatment and crime.