The Collaborative International Dictionary
ill-treatment \ill-treatment\ n. cruel or inhumane treatment.
Syn: maltreatment, ill-usage, abuse.
Wiktionary
n. bad, unkind or abusive treatment
WordNet
n. cruel or inhumane treatment [syn: maltreatment, ill-usage, abuse]
Usage examples of "ill-treatment".
His ill-treatment at the hands of the tinklers had affected both his memory and his wits, and it was a long time before his head cleared.
His workshop in the basement sheltered, to the delight of Ranny and other children on the block, a variety of pets he had rescued from ill-treatment.
The feelings of a man hereditarily sensitive to property accused her of a trespassing imprudence, and knowing himself, by testimony of his household, his tenants, and the neighbourhood, and the world as well, amiable when he received his dues, he contemplated her with an air of stiff-backed ill-treatment, not devoid of a certain sanctification of martyrdom.
He was a stocky man with a round, solid head, small eyes, an undershot jaw, and a nose which ill-treatment had reduced to a mere scenario.
Queen Arete, to whom Medea had appealed for protection, kept her royal husband awake by complaining, in a general way, of the ill-treatment to which fathers too often subjected their daughters, whether the daughters were guilty of anything or not.
Little though you may think it, Mr Carleton, there is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment.
All except the vandalous elderly person who has so disgraced his lineage by ill-treatment of our home are in the Princess's entourage.