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maltreatment noun abuse, bullying, mistreatment, injury, harm, ill-treatment, rough handling, ill-usage Two thousand prisoners died as a result of maltreatment. Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They likewise ascertained from various signs, that this party had suffered some maltreatment from the Indians. I was always sensitive to the maltreatment of books; I could not bear to see a book faced down or dogs-eared or broken-backed. 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. |
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