Ill-treat
"Ill-treat" in a Sentence (2 examples)
It is cruel of him to ill-treat pets.
He would never speak a word, only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.
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