mistreatment

noun

as in maltreatment

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Recent Examples of mistreatment Racial profiling is the discriminatory mistreatment of racial, ethnic, or religious minorities by police officers and other law enforcement or security personnel. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 Yes, violence and mistreatment of women should be called out and women and girls should be protected, but these decisions and statements are just pure, unadulterated corporate virtue signaling. — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2026 She has not been arrested, but does face animal mistreatment charges. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 The notion is that children are both uniquely vulnerable to trafficking or other mistreatment and incapable of navigating their way through the byzantine immigration system without legal help. — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026 However, the bug hunter has been deliberately avoiding attempts to coordinate with Microsoft to patch the vulnerabilities, citing past mistreatment by the company. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026 Temporary contracts add to instability, McAlister wrote, and create a culture of silence around employee mistreatment and toxic hierarchies. — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Goode charts the exploitation and mistreatment of reptiles that are illegally sold and sometimes endangered through intricate, decades-old smuggling operations that have often, but not always, escaped detection at airports. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 The law ensures unaccompanied children have legal counsel to represent them in legal proceedings and to protect them from mistreatment, exploitation and trafficking. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistreatment
  1. maltreatment
  2. ill-treatment
  3. mismanagement
  4. mishandling
Noun
  • The program is linked to a 32% drop in infant maltreatment reports, which represents a massive prevention of child welfare involvement.
    — Mona Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The maltreatment eventually led her to run away, later re-entering foster care.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
Definition of maltreatment
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
  • The contest for the contract worth upwards of $700 million intensified after the advocacy group Common Ground and whistleblowers accused Veolia of mismanagement.
    — Mary Spicuzza, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • That observation grew into a 15-month Sun Sentinel investigation that exposed widespread fraud and mismanagement in FEMA disaster aid across the country.
    — Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of mismanagement
Noun
  • The bill was ushered through the state General Assembly after the discovery of extensive mishandling of bodies at a Carlinville funeral home, where at least 80 families were given the wrong remains.
    — Casey Toner, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Welch has described his mishandling of this matter as a systemic failure.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of mishandling

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“Mistreatment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistreatment. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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