mistreatment vs maltreatment
Definitions
noun
- the practice of treating (someone or something) badly
Examples
Mistreatment based on ethnic or racial biases have been alleged by a number of people.
They think we are weak, cowardly people who will be intimidated and scared off by their mistreatment of our prisoners.
Whereas before I spent most of my days trying to escape the unmerciful teasing and mistreatment by the Mormon children and the weirdoes in my own family by reading Torah all day, I now began spending all of my days escaping the same things by reading about the occult interpretations of the Torah.
Definitions
noun
- cruel or inhumane treatment
Examples
Rape, incest, and maltreatment are the crimes dealt with in this study.
I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
On the other hand, the program of slave labor is described as an unending process of humiliation, harassment, maltreatment and crime.
