ILL-USAGE Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

ill-usage

noun

Definition of ill-usage

as in mistreatment

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Noun

The same device that helps families seek medical advice can also expose mistreatment.

— Fatima Faizi, NPR, 10 July 2026
Before the 2022 World Cup, Wahl made several reporting trips to Qatar to talk to migrant workers about their mistreatment while building stadiums and other infrastructure for the event.

— Sean Gregory, Time, 10 July 2026

Definition of mistreatment

Noun

Officers understood that a move against Maduro without clear guarantees of immunity meant risking imprisonment, torture, confiscation of assets, and the ill-treatment of their families.

— Bobby Ghosh, Time, 3 Jan. 2026
On the stand, Nash testified to Combs’ ill-treatment Fine during the years he was employed.

— DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2025

Definition of ill-treatment

Noun

According to Seary, there is also currently no funded pathway specifically designed for former athletes recovering from coach maltreatment nor duty of care beyond retirement, meaning survivors are left to self-fund their own recovery, from legal fees to therapy and healthcare.

— Megan Feringa, New York Times, 3 June 2026
Severe child maltreatment is not reducible to a single cause, and serious child welfare policy cannot be reduced to a single response.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of maltreatment

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The former superintendent of the Hickman Mills School District was fired abruptly last July as the district faced state-level allegations of financial mismanagement and improper activity.

— Ilana Arougheti July 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
Increasingly severe wildfires — fueled by climate change and more than a century of forest mismanagement — have forced an environmental reckoning on mountain towns nestled in California’s Sierra Nevada.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

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