mistreatment

[ UK /mɪstɹˈiːtmənt/ ]
[ US /mɪˈstɹitmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the practice of treating (someone or something) badly
    he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother
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How To Use mistreatment In A Sentence

  • 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. Roseanne Archy
  • We know they've chosen us because we're Tutsi," a Burundian officer who asked to remain anonymous told AFP, adding "we are not refusing to demobilise but we are victims of mistreatment". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • A demonstration was planned to protest the mistreatment of prisoners.
  • The Greek system is dedicated to quelling young men's anxiety about submitting themselves to four years of sissy-pants book learning by providing them with a variety of he-man activities: drinking, drugging, ESPN watching and the sexual mistreatment of women. Shutter Fraternities for Young Women's Good
  • the physical mistreatment of children.
  • At the end of the legal argument preceding Ahmed's trial, the judge rejected a bid by his lawyers to have the trial scrapped over Britain's alleged role in his mistreatment, stating in an "open" version of his judgment: "I am not satisfied that the British authorities assisted or encouraged the Pakistanis to unlawfully detain and/or ill-treat Rangzieb Ahmed in such a way as to amount to an abuse of the process of the court. Rangzieb Ahmed to appeal terrorism conviction
  • There are signs that mistreatment of domestic staff is becoming less socially acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those who managed to survive times of war were subjected to cruel mistreatment in mines. Christianity Today
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