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- verb Present participle of
maltreat .
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Examples
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After four days of hunger, the crewmen begin maltreating the weaker of the survivors, the boy O'Brien a particular target.
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* 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 Sigmund Freud 1897
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He denied all the specific acts of cruelty alleged against him, such as maltreating and killing prisoners with his own hands.
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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He denied all the specific acts of cruelty alleged against him, such as maltreating and killing prisoners with his own hands.
Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887
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“And I give you warning, Wolf Larsen, that I may forget love of my own life in the desire to kill you if you go too far in maltreating those poor wretches.”
Chapter 19 2010
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I see, and cleverly put; only, while you escape the charge of maltreating me yesterday; you throw yourself open to it to-day.
CHAPTER 10 2010
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Czech mother maltreating sons given nine years in prison
Cannibal cult mother who skinned son and made him eat his own flesh gets 9 years in jail 2008
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- Source: Czech mother maltreating sons given nine years in prison, Sestry Mauerovy, Czech Happenings (Czech Republic), Oct. 25, 2008 — Summarized by Religion News Blog
Cannibal cult mother who skinned son and made him eat his own flesh gets 9 years in jail 2008
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She said this on her way to prison after she was convicted of conspiracy, maltreating Iraqi detainees.
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Besides why should an X-mas card with a picture of a jovial Finnish beard-o on a sledge maltreating reindeer be the better choice?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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