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Cruel or inhumane treatment
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maltreatment
Word definitions for maltreatment in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1721, from French maltraitement or formed in English from mal- + treatment .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. cruel or harmful treatment or abuse; mistreatment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
maltreatment \mal*treat"ment\, n.; [Cf. F. maltraitement.] Cruel or inhumane treatment; ill usage; abuse. Syn: ill-treatment.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. cruel or inhumane treatment [syn: ill-treatment , ill-usage , abuse ]
Usage examples of maltreatment.
The maltreatment of the human and canine bodies, and the crazy burial of the damaged Archaean specimens, were all of a piece with this apparent disintegrative madness.
Party, although it may have contained former Fascists, was not a Fascist party and contained many honest pacifists and Socialists, like Ben Greene, whose wrongful imprisonment and maltreatment in gaol caused a major scandal.
Until it would agree to do this the Rebels would not agree to exchange, and the only motive--save revenge--which could have inspired the Rebel maltreatment of the prisoners, was the expectation of raising such a clamor in the North as would force the Government to consent to a disadvantageous exchange, and to give back to the Confederacy, at its most critical period one hundred thousand fresh, able-bodied soldiers.
Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript.
For two years his faith was spurned, his zeal denied recognition, his charities taken in ill part, and he remained a prisoner to one of the cruelest tribes of the Nyambarra, the object of every species of maltreatment.