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Meanings of ill-use in English
Synonyms
Examples for "step"
Examples for "step"
1
However, today takes us one step closer to a more equal Britain.
2
It just means we're one step closer to home, right? I ask.
3
Public opinion would regard this as a step in the right direction.
4
PSG need a similar result to go one step further this time.
5
It's time to take a step back and ask some necessary questions.
1
All political parties accept there is a serious problem with alcohol abuse.
2
To Oprah's credit, she mentioned victims of abuse outside the entertainment industry.
3
If the alcohol abuse stops, then the physical health problems will stop.
4
Armed with information, children are better able to report abuse to you.
5
Government has also availed a number of avenues for victims of abuse.
1
We'll not mistreat her, and we'll leave her on the south shore.
2
The white folks ain't got no reason to mistreat the colored people.
3
Not only did you mistreat him, but you've misjudged him as well.
4
It's a message of firm condemnation of certain practices that mistreat others.
5
The punishment will be imposed on people who mistreat, abandon, or neglect animals.
1
None shall injure or maltreat them; Moslems shall assist them against oppressors.
2
The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge one another.
3
The boys instead of returning the dude's clothes began to maltreat him.
4
Public utilities are likewise administered by white men who often maltreat Negroes.
5
No soldier to maltreat any of our allies in their persons or properties.
1
Tell me that an Englishman has dared to ill-treat an American woman.
2
They would not dare ill-treat a colored cadet or a white one.
3
Now there is an outcry that the Albanians of Kosovo ill-treat the Slavs.
4
But why suppose anything so monstrous; men do not ill-treat children.
5
Perhaps he was only a scoundrel-perhapshe would not ill-treat her.
Usage of ill-use in English
1
She sat up urgently, wincing as her battered muscles protested their ill-use.
2
Those whom he hated he did not ill-use beyond the limits of justice.
3
He felt sure that the man would ill-use her and make her wretched.
4
There was nobody to tease or ill-use him, and he was never ill.
5
That little men should have ventured to ill-use you, has hurt your pride.
6
They told me that he would ill-use me, and desert me,-perhapsbeat me.
7
He will ill-use us all,-andyet, major, you are going to leave us.
8
After all, this poor man did not ill-use himself in this outrageous way.
9
He must hev somethin' t' ill-use when he's in a passion.'
10
It is only women, who adore them, that kill them and ill-use them accordingly.
11
How could you ill-use the world? There was faint irony in her voice now.
12
Tell me, didst thou ever ill-use them in his sight?
13
If God was hard on them, why should not man oppress and ill-use them?
14
He preached it to his daughter that the fellow might ill-use her in some way.
15
I would sooner marry a man I loved, though I knew he would ill-use me.
16
For them, who now ill-use you, you have gone through life but half a man.
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