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Example sentences for "maltreatment"

Lexicographically close words:
malting; maltose; maltreat; maltreated; maltreating; maltreats; maltster; maltsters; malu; malum
  1. General prohibitions of maltreatment availed little when prelate and priest were busy in inflaming popular aversion and popes were found to threaten any prince hardy enough to interpose and protect the unfortunate race.

  2. A more atrocious maltreatment of the text, and misconception of the true function of the human voice, could not be imagined.

  3. Although free from the smaller vices of the Italian school, she could not overcome the great and fatal shortcoming of that school--the maltreatment of the poetic text.

  4. In this house I received no maltreatment from attendants (much from patients, Gibbs, and others).

  5. Although I have received maltreatment in asylums in New York and Vermont States, I am not altogether opposed to these institutions, for there are insane persons who have no homes, yet I protest against maltreatment.

  6. It is so often the result of impaired health, while the severe test of maltreatment or even the most skillful treatment, tends to deplete the system and depress the spirits.

  7. I must also remonstrate against the maltreatment and confinement of our officers--this, I am informed, is not only the case of those in Philadelphia, but of many in New York.

  8. Passing over three weeks we find Washington writing from Headquarters on November 14th to Sir William Howe, the British Commander-in-Chief, in regard to the maltreatment of prisoners and to proposals of exchanging officers on parole.

  9. But Cencius fell upon him during Divine service, and only with difficulty he escaped further maltreatment by flight into France, where he died in the monastery of Clugny after a pontificate of scarcely twelve months.

  10. The Roman legates and Eusebius escaped similar maltreatment only by speedy flight.

  11. The maltreatment of another person's slave regarded as an injury done to the master, rather than to the slave, p.

  12. The maltreatment of another person's slave has, even by civilised legislators, been regarded as an injury done to the master rather than to the slave.

  13. The ill-feeding and maltreatment of dogs are prosecuted as criminal, and extreme penalties are inflicted on those who venture to kill them.

  14. A court-martial was quickly summoned, and during the trial it became apparent that the motive which alone had driven him to desertion had been the brutal maltreatment to which his master, Borgert, had subjected him.

  15. He was condemned to a jail term of five years, to deprivation of all civic honors for ten years, and to expulsion from the army, brought about by a series of frauds, by desertion and by maltreatment of subordinates in ten cases.

  16. And that, of course, would spare Borgert himself the unpleasant predicament of facing a court-martial because of systematic maltreatment of a subordinate.

  17. Where the system had before been so fraught with positive maltreatment to many and alarm to all, the mitigation of it must have been sensibly as well as immediately felt.

  18. When the Belgian civic guards and refugees began pouring into the city from the direction of Louvain, they brought stories of unspeakable German atrocities, maltreatment of old men and children, and the violation of women.

  19. Paragraph 4, which claims for "damage caused by any kind of maltreatment of prisoners of war," is more doubtful on the strict letter, but may be justifiable under the Hague Convention and involves a very small sum.

  20. In Pope's terrific maltreatment of the latter simile, it is neither true to mind or eye.

  21. The latter simile, in Pope's terrific maltreatment of it, is true neither to the mind nor to the eye.

  22. For the same reason women often bear interminably long maltreatment at the hands of their husbands or lovers.

  23. Blair and Governor Nicholson led to a tedious controversy, in which charges of malfeasance in official duty and private misconduct, especially in the affair of his attachment for Miss Burwell, and his maltreatment of the Rev.

  24. Paine's defamers have manifested an eagerness to ascribe his maltreatment to personal faults.

  25. It were unjust to suppose that Paine met with nothing but abuse and maltreatment from ministers of serious orthodoxy in New York.

  26. We discuss events in the world at large, incidents of the local life, the maltreatment of the inmates, the frequent clubbings and suicides, the unwholesome food.

  27. Not only did he not dare to prolong the maltreatment of the Pope, but he was absolutely compelled, even apart from all considerations of foreign politics, to be reconciled with the Papacy, which he had so grievously wounded.

  28. One fact of this kind is the devastation and maltreatment of the newly-won State, which Cesare still intended to keep and to rule over.

  29. The most remarkable fact about the maltreatment of the South American Indians is that--admitted and specially alluded to in the Peruvian Press, as the foregoing extracts show--abuses are carried out often by the petty authorities themselves.

  30. Likewise do maltreatment and the infamous practice and superstition of "making angels" increase the victims.

  31. Whether you can defend yourself with your revolver from such maltreatment is more than doubtful.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maltreatment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; atrocity; injury; oppression; outrage; persecution; punishment; sacrilege; violation; violence