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Maltreatment   Listen
noun
maltreatment  n.  Cruel or inhumane treatment; ill usage; abuse.
Synonyms: ill-treatment.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Maltreatment" Quotes from Famous Books



... non-existent. The police force of Cinemaland is a body of men who are most of them of conspicuously full habit. I can vouch for it that the appearance of these officials is almost invariably greeted with derision; and should they (as frequently happens) incur physical maltreatment or other misfortune in the exercise of their duties popular sympathy is almost always on the side of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 • Various

... to read a paper prepared for him by Fray Tomas de la Torre, containing a full vindication of his Bishop's opinions. This recantation produced no small effect upon the colonists, some of whom were moved to express regret for their part in the maltreatment of Las Casas and the friars. This business terminated, the Canon rejoined Las Casas at Cinacatlan and accompanied ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt

... which met at Algeciras in 1906 to consider the Moorish question in its wider political aspects. The intervening quarter of a century had been as barren of reforms as the period which elapsed between the granting of the Edict of 1864 and the meeting of the Madrid Conference. The maltreatment of the Jews had continued, and had been the subject of frequent complaints by the Alliance Israelite, the Anglo-Jewish Association, and the American Jewish Committee, and of remonstrances by their respective Governments. Accordingly at the instance of the United States Government, the question ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf



Words linked to "Maltreatment" :   child neglect, inhuman treatment, abuse, cruelty, ill-usage, child abuse



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