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
Your daughter is mistreating you.
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Judith Martin, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Badly injured, Bradley initially fails to grasp the gravity of his situation and continues to mistreat Linda.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
The captain who hired the officer later filed a human resources complaint alleging the officer had been mistreated.
—Ben Wheeler
may 20, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
Kabuga did not want to return to Rwanda — which offered to take him — out of fear he would be mistreated.
—ABC News, 16 May 2026
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Judith Martin, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Badly injured, Bradley initially fails to grasp the gravity of his situation and continues to mistreat Linda.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026
The captain who hired the officer later filed a human resources complaint alleging the officer had been mistreated.
—Ben Wheeler
may 20, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
Kabuga did not want to return to Rwanda — which offered to take him — out of fear he would be mistreated.
—ABC News, 16 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistreat
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According to Variety and Puck, the film was originally set to dramatize Jackson being accused of abusing 13‑year‑old Jordan Chandler in 1993.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
14 June 2026
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The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that the Litchfield Middle School failed to act on a complaint from the 1980s that Driscoll was allegedly abusing students before Fitterer and Bird were middle school students in the 1990s.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2026
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A little over a month later, another spell of freezing weather bullied its way into Central Florida and slammed the remaining citrus groves that had just started to recover.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
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With Ethan Hawke's newbie simmering against the go-for-broke finesse of Denzel Washington's very bad, no-good officer, Training Day revels in tension, with washes of blue and green augmenting scenes where Hawke is bullied into getting high.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 June 2026
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The album is both plea, polemic and protest, but its argument — that oppressed and working people deserve rights and dignity, and that those things have historically been won through rebellion and revolution — is hardly radical.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
19 June 2026
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To Be Whole,' which teaches that the United States was founded on 'white supremacy' and categorizes individuals as 'oppressors' and 'oppressed' based only on their skin color, not their individual decisions and actions.—
Gabriela Vidal,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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“Mistreat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistreat. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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