phrasal verb

• do by someoneTreat or deal with someone in a specified way.

  ‘he slipped away almost unnoticed, leaving Matt feeling that somehow they had done badly by the old man’

  More example sentences

  • ‘do as you would be done by’
  • ‘If he had done badly by her he knows I'd put his teeth halfway down his throat.’
  • ‘Then he began to have a faint inkling that he was being treated leniently, and to think that they had done kindly by him, in not yielding to his wish.’
  • ‘My mother, bless her soul, had done well by me in making me learn to sew at an early age.’