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ill-treated

How to use ill-treated in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for ill-treated.

Editorial note

He probably felt ill-treated at Apple and this was his chance to right a previous wrong. BUT. I used and developed for BeOS for many years.

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Quick take

subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ill-treated.

Example sentences

1

He probably felt ill-treated at Apple and this was his chance to right a previous wrong. BUT. I used and developed for BeOS for many years.

2

IME, most often CBA’s protect the bad more often than protect the ill-treated. Some say it’s a fair trade-off, but I have bags of bad examples and not a single good example.

3

When a fair-sized segment of programmers feel ill-treated, the community itself does not prosper as it could.

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For every well-paid and -treated programmer there are a whole bunch of underpaid and ill-treated ones. Besides, what's so wrong about not wanting to work?

5

I didn't feel ill-treated at all. Unless you count attempted poisoning via adult beverages, that is.

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Instead, they languished with a chain of dirty, disorganized, depressing stores, ill-treated and unmotivated employees, and no vision. They didn't have to die, but their leadership and strategy did.

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If in future, they get ill-treated again, a new version of CAB might be brought. There have been many instances of citizenship granting based on particular cases throughout India's 70 year post-independence history.

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But even if he were, then as long as he was no more ill-treated than the average drug defendant, then I don't think we should worry about him more than the average drug defendant. And possibly less; Black still has incredible advantages over most of humanity.

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If Greece can sufficiently exploit its resource base with just 60% of its population, yes, there are far more Greeks than they need, and the rest are being ill-treated because their presence is seen as a burden rather than an asset. And wasn't Somalia officially in famine just a month ago?

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He had been held incommunicado by Macedonian officials, ill-treated and beaten. On 23 July he had been taken to Skopje airport and handed over to CIA operatives.

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Most complained that none of them could live up to his dead wife, and the more ill-treated ones wrote to the others saying that the best way to get out of a Feynman relationship was to make a few dollars by claiming to have missed your period. This is all passed over quite briefly in Genius, but you'll find more evidence elsewhere.

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If you look at it from the perspective of a normal worker in society, who sees his job being taken by masses of extremely low-paid and ill-treated muslims who do a shoddy job, but so much cheaper it's still worth it for the bosses, this will start to make sense. This conflict with the poor, or lower class intensifies when the muslims' numbers grow.

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Added to the fact that people coming from India and China don't have options like DV list, O1 and are sort of ill-treated and are looked down upon, etc. , - I owe a lot of gratitude to the outsourcing and loan staff boom.

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Second, he himself has been ill-treated to the point that he is now exhibiting symptoms of psychological torture. And then >In summary: Julian Assange uncovered torture, has been tortured himself This is one of the reasons I don't trust this rapporteur, because he seems to make those claims interchangeably when they very clearly aren't the same thing.

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And every word, when once it is written, is bandied about, alike among those who understand and those who have no interest in it, and it knows not to whom to speak or not to speak; when ill-treated or unjustly reviled it always needs its father to help it; for it has no power to protect or help itself." The irony of my being able to present this only due to the nature of writing cannot be overstated.

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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light.

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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use ill-treated in a sentence?

He probably felt ill-treated at Apple and this was his chance to right a previous wrong. BUT. I used and developed for BeOS for many years.

What does ill-treated mean?

subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"

What part of speech is ill-treated?

ill-treated is commonly used as adjective.