handle roughly
Frequency: 6.04.5 per million words
To touch or move something in a rough or violent way.
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Examples (10)
- Many of the prisoners were roughly handled; some were killed.
- Fragile items should never be handled roughly during shipping.
- The police were accused of handling the protesters roughly.
- If you handle the equipment roughly, it will eventually break.
- The suspect claimed he was handled roughly by the guards.
- Please do not handle the antique books so roughly.
- The children were warned not to handle the small puppy roughly.
- Some of the old manuscripts had been handled roughly over the years.
- He handled the delicate machinery roughly, causing a malfunction.
- The luggage was handled roughly by the airport ground crew.