to mistreat
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2.9
- verb
- /ˌmɪsˈtrit/
- It is unacceptable to mistreat anyone, regardless of the situation.
- mistreat people
- mistreat children
- mistreat women
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Watch on YouTubeAnd we always seem to mistreat the ones we love first.
- And we always seem to mistreat the ones we love first.
- And that justified mistreating black people for him.
- When you allow people to mistreat you, that starts to reflect poorly on you.
- But then they tend to mistreat people pretty soon after they pull them in.
- Whatever it is, you do need to be prepared for them to mistreat this person.
- Seeing Andrew the other day on camera made me think they're mistreating him badly.
- Where for years and years and years, we, you know, companies have taken advantage of our mistreated frontline workers.
- It's a terrible way to use music, but we've used music to not only to mistreat people in prisons, we use music for torture.
- I was going to say like maybe some type of like lack of rationale, lack of intellect, not perceiving that somebody is like mistreating you, right?
- Those are the kinds of things that lead to corruption within systems, lead to misuse of resources, lead to people mistreating each other.
- Those are all relationships and the people that are mistreating you is a byproduct of you and yourself worth.
- And finally, they dehumanize the ones that are mistreating as somewhat less, less than human.
- I think the biggest mistake that the UFC did was to try and to mistreat me or to masses me up that can work on me.
- My daughter ain't never been beat on like me, mistreated like me and she happy and I'm I'm glad she had what we want for our kids.
Examples
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If you've been mistreated, I wanna know about it.
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When you allow people to mistreat you, that starts to reflect poorly on you.
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And we always seem to mistreat the ones we love first.
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Hey nobody gets to mistreat my dog like that, except me.
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If you never again mistreat a child, then you have nothing to fear from me.
Fiction book (1992) -
You were not allowed to mistreat them, not in public anyway.
Fiction book (2000) -
This song goes out to anyone who has ever felt mistreated.
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It's my job to help anyone who's being mistreated.
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I can't stand seeing animals mistreated.
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After the homes reopened, four staffers were arrested on charges of mistreating young people in their care.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
238
3.7
To treat a person or animal cruelly to harm them
67
6.7
To treat someone badly to gain power or get ahead
63
6.0
Treat someone cruelly or unfairly so they suffer
60
5.2
Treat someone unfairly
31
7.7
Treat someone cruelly with violence or make them numb to suffering
3
7.4
To be cruel to a person or animal
1
5.2
Behave towards a person or animal in a cruel, unfair way
1
8.6
To treat people or animals badly and unfairly
Antonyms
How Cruel
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mistreat is made of mis- meaning 'wrong' or 'badly' and treat, meaning 'to act toward someone' or 'to care for someone'. So, like mistake is a 'wrong' action and the opposite of good treatment, to mistreat someone is to treat them badly or cruelly.