[ US /mɪˈstɹit/ ]
[ UK /mɪstɹˈiːt/ ]
VERB
  1. treat badly
    This boss abuses his workers
    She is always stepping on others to get ahead
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How To Use mistreat In A Sentence

  • We have received a complaint from some tourists about a bear being mistreated and kept in deplorable conditions in a snake farm in Pattaya.
  • The move by the farmers may sour relations with the government, which has in the past accused white farmers of mistreating their black workers.
  • Telling them they have been lied to and mistreated is to ask them to frag their leaders; you are traitors to them and their leaders for engaging in this irresponsible speech.
  • I recall no vices as long as you didn't mistreat her or overload her.
  • Many young soldiers desert or go Awol after mistreatment and bullying by their superiors or colleagues.
  • British forces are not accused of direct involvement in the alleged mistreatment. Times, Sunday Times
  • For the sake of good conscience, we should not mistreat other people.
  • These people know nothing about traveling through the Northland, and they badly mistreat Buck.
  • There were numerous stories and testimony about how the confined people were mistreated in the past.
  • It was the terms of those visas which made them particularly vulnerable to the mistreatment which they suffered. Times, Sunday Times
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