subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"
maltreated
How to use maltreated in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for maltreated.
Editorial note
Think about all the people who've been maltreated at school. Are you saying it was because they all lacked character?
Quick take
subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for maltreated.
adjective
subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"
See also: abused, ill-treated, mistreated
Example sentences
Think about all the people who've been maltreated at school. Are you saying it was because they all lacked character?
The bull is also angry at being penned and possibly maltreated, before being killed.
These people have been maltreated by the medical establishment. And you’re very welcome to quote me on that.
If a woman feels maltreated on your watch, you could be held liable even if you are not culpable. In a small startup, this could be enough to sink the ship.
Dubai is a city built on the backs of maltreated migrant workers. There is little glamour for these mainly South East Asian workers who earn $1 a day.
We offer some amount of protection against being maltreated. We have a lawyer in house who does the startups' basic legal work for free, and now a designer too.
And the kicker is if you ever point out that you are maltreated they will deny it while maltreating you for daring to point out their casual cruelty.
They might very well give an arm and a leg, those on the outside are going to feel maltreated, and might even start a revolution. As far as the "immortality" for these jellyfish go though, they are rather easy to kill.
So, the public makes sure the damage of you being hurt, unable to work and maybe turning out to be a case for social security because of being maltreated is avoided.
Customers are used to being maltreated. Most of the companies they deal with are quasi-monopolies that get away with atrocious customer service.
But many intelligent people end up as excess capacity, unused and maltreated. You need connections and credibility to unlock them.
Both of us arrive at the same conclusion, that Aaron was maltreated by prosecutors, but by different means. This way of thinking, where anyone who disagrees with a specific point about Aaron Swartz must somehow be on the side of the government, is a pox on the whole site.
Discrimination is when an individual is maltreated on the basis of belonging to a group, rather than as an individual. Yet also 'more optimal/efficient use of resources'.
I could go on but in short; being singled out or even maltreated on basis of skin color because people see you as privileged is something quite different than being disrespected because your skin color signals relative under-privilege. Which should give pause I believe.
The fear of becoming homeless, or an addict, or maltreated animal - however stupid this sounds - will dominate their minds and will worsen their condition almost universally. Worsening depression could be lethal, hence my question at the beginning.
Anything that isn't affecting their really big clients in advertising isn't getting any sophisticated support and even that area of business might be maltreated in respect to professional support. And don't be shortsighted here.
But ones who consider children spoils or as curses or burdens or thieves of their unmitigated freedoms they used to have prior, it's probably for the better to never have children for they would be neglected or maltreated one way or another.
Long term said maltreated former newcomers would be left with negative experiences towards unions and likely think of them negatively. That scenario has echoes in the past well before industrial organized labor and guilds into outright caste dynamics - although those may occur from lack of an educational infrastructure leaving occupation essentially heritable and it being codified.
> fascism is a principle where corporations and the state make common cause against the people, whom they seek to exploit or control, respectively I'm not in a position to do the research at the moment, but I'd suggest that African-Americans have very clearly and for a very long time suffered state control for financial exploitation, and they are not the only ones, but simply the largest and most visibly egregiously maltreated minority. Look at property values in areas with high levels of police violence.
And when they have been once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not understand them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves.” —- Plato, on reading and writing.
The premise is that it's not reasonable to expect a community maltreated by public health and law enforcement for decades to instantaneously reverse themselves and comply with those authorities' dictates when, at long last, those dictates are finally motivated by something other than abusive and too often outright lethal prejudice. As I noted in a response to your sibling comment, this implicitly expects people to act on the basis of knowledge which, at the time they have to choose their actions, does not yet even exist.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use maltreated in a sentence?
Think about all the people who've been maltreated at school. Are you saying it was because they all lacked character?
What does maltreated mean?
subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"
What part of speech is maltreated?
maltreated is commonly used as adjective.