cruel treatment
Synonyms
meanness
torture
exploitation
cruelty
brutality
mistreatment
desecration
squandering
maltreatment
profanation
misemployment
abusage
Examples
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.