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Examples of mistreat in a Sentence
They accuse him of mistreating his wife.
She claimed she had been mistreated by the police.
Recent Examples of mistreat from the Web
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Hua declined further comment but said he had not been mistreated.
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According to Rondini's story, told to Buzzfeed News by her family and friends, the 20-year-old was mistreated by Tuscaloosa police, the university, and DCH Regional Medical Center.
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A chilling new lawsuit claims that protesters in Washington, D.C., were severely mistreated on Inauguration Day.
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Gov. Mike Stack and his wife mistreated some of their employees, a group of senators is pushing to change the way the public elects candidates for the state’s No. 2 job.
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He was sexually abused as a child, and mistreated in other ways.
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In a 2005 study in the U.S. Northwest, 33 percent of former foster children reported being mistreated in care.
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To say that a childless person has no standing to be concerned when, say, a parent is mistreating a kid, is just hostile to people without kids.
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Before the girl's body was found in her Joliet Township home, the agency had opened 10 investigations into allegations that she and several other youths were mistreated there.
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First Known Use of mistreat
15th century
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: to treat (someone or something) badly
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