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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
illtreat .
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Examples
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This lady's children are not remotely illtreated or neglected but well cared for and hugely loved by all reports.
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He then pointing at the former indian player Retindeer sodhi who is playing from Ahmedabad's rocket team said that he was illtreated at the club match and also was not allowed to even watch the game.
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I am afraid of just giving them to anyone as I feel that they may be illtreated.
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"Eleven, thirteen, eighteen, twenty-one," said Cheesacre to himself, reckoning up in his misery the number of pounds sterling which he would have to pay for being illtreated in this way.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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When you are wronged and illtreated, and men ride rough-shod over you, and you feel it but just to smite back, He says, "Put up thy sword into the sheath."
When the Holy Ghost is Come Col. S. L. Brengle
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They were all thoroughly cowed, as are dogs that have been illtreated.
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Said their officers always told them we illtreated our prisoners.
The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926
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He lived on good terms with the other peninsular sovereigns, but when his daughter was illtreated by her husband,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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She wondered if that coarse, loudly dressed woman really cared for her husband, or if this brutal looking man with insolent stare of the libertine, illtreated his delicate little wife.
The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure Arthur Hornblow 1903
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Pausing to free this captive, he learns that this unfortunate has been illtreated by a neighboring villain, who exacts the hair of every woman and beard of every man passing his castle, because his lady-love wishes a cloak woven of female hair and adorned with a fringe of beards.
The Book of the Epic 1894
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