Crossword-Solution: ILLTREATED 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

This man was a great ruffian, and had laws existed for the prevention of cruelty to animals, I would have prosecuted him; nominally he had the charge of the mule and two ponies, but he illtreated these poor animals, and the donkeys also, in a disgraceful manner.

The thought that if one of those men should come over to him, he would have to stand up and salute and answer humbly, not from civility, but from the fear of being punished, was bitter as wormwood, filled him with a childish desire--to prove his worth to them, as when older boys had illtreated him at school and he had prayed to have the house burn down so that he might heroically save them all.

The doors being shut, they entered the houses by force and illtreated the inhabitants who on the next day took a bitter revenge.

Mothers will kill and eat their own children, and the women again are often mercilessly illtreated by their lords and masters.

The whole case was so insignificant that some of the people who were alleged to have been illtreated declared, under oath, at a later period before a court of investigation that they would never have made any complaint on their own initiative.