Many a man, from vanity, maltreats even his friends, when in the presence of witnesses to whom he wishes to make his own preponderance clear.
As he lives from hand to mouth, alternating between hunger and superfluity, he kills more animals than he can eat, and robs and maltreats men more than is necessary.
The step-mother sends her own daughter to try the same means of becoming beautiful; but she maltreats the mare's head, and the mare's head devours her.
Meanwhile the old woman comes back, finds the work badly done, curses, threatens, and maltreats the girl.
The wicked sister of the poor woman also goes to visit the cats, but she maltreats them, and returns home all scratched, and more dead than alive from pain and terror.
During his absence shemaltreats the puppy, and gives her scarcely anything to eat; then she lets herself be overcome by curiosity, and goes to see what there is in the two rooms, followed by the puppy.
Woman loves a man; she maltreats a slave, and ends by kicking him aside.
It is constantly objected that fortune maltreats the good, and favors the evil in opposition to the agreement that ought to exist between virtue and happiness.
Thus arises a harmony between the disposition of the man who is maltreated, and the disposition of him who maltreats him as he deserved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maltreats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
