as in to abuse
to inflict physical or emotional harm upon
the foster parent who had been mistreating his charges was sent to jail
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Recent Examples of mistreat
This time Hilton was speaking in support of two families who filed lawsuits Monday alleging that their children were mistreated at Provo Canyon School, the same facility where Hilton spent almost a year in the late 1990s.
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ABC News,
15 June 2026
Those scars created a man who was a distant father and equally remote with his band members at the peak, mistreating them with casual disdain until everything fell apart.
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Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
His tenure at Texas Tech came to a messy and uncomfortable end when he was fired for cause after being accused of mistreating a player with a concussion.
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Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
The Chinese have been broug ht here to work on railroads, to work on farms and they were mistreated.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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ABC News,
15 June 2026
Those scars created a man who was a distant father and equally remote with his band members at the peak, mistreating them with casual disdain until everything fell apart.
—
Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
His tenure at Texas Tech came to a messy and uncomfortable end when he was fired for cause after being accused of mistreating a player with a concussion.
—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
The Chinese have been broug ht here to work on railroads, to work on farms and they were mistreated.
—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistreat
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For more on how attackers can abuse connected devices, see our report on how the FBI warned that more than 1 million Android devices were hijacked by malware.
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Some dogs fear brooms, vacuum cleaners or other household products, particularly if they’ve been hurt or abused in the past.
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This was a rabid, partisan home-soil advantage that flat-out bullied the squad into surviving.
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They got bullied in that one, showing a tremendous lack of physicality.
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Man oppressed woman legally, economically, socially, educationally, morally, professionally and religiously.
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Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
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“Mistreat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistreat. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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