ill usage in English
noun
1
bad or cruel treatment.
he bore his ill usage with a tranquil dignity
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1. Lords, commoners, and reverend bishops, with little distinction of person or party, were kicked and pinched and hustled; passed from hand to hand through various stages of ill-usage; and sent to their fellow-senators at last with their clothes hanging in ribands about them, their Bagwigs torn off, themselves speechless and breathless, and their persons covered with the powder which had been