虐ぎゃく遇ぐう

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

ill-treatment; abuse

Formal or written term for cruel treatment, similar to 虐待 but less common in everyday speech. Often used in legal, social, or historical contexts.

See also: 虐待

• その施し設せつでは入にゅう居きょ者しゃへの虐ぎゃく遇ぐうが問もん題だいになった。

  Ill-treatment of residents became a problem at that facility.

• 歴れき史し的てきに、捕ほ虜りょに対たいする虐ぎゃく遇ぐうは国こく際さい法ほうで禁きんじられている。

  Historically, abuse of prisoners of war is prohibited under international law.