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Recent Examples of mistreatment
Koko Miller, 57, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, maintaining a dangerous dog and two counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment in connection with the December 2023 attack that left 6-year-old Loyalty Scott dead, prosecutors said, per Oregon Live, KPTV and KGW-TV.
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Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
Those choosing the first option (agreement) will find that what follows is not respect, but mistreatment; those choosing the second (returning fire) are merely providing confirmation of what your hosts already believe — as well as fresh material for their next round of insults.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
But would even the biggest box-office bump justify such roughshod mistreatment of primary material?
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
But now the American Enterprise Institute enters the fray, ignoring the evidence that mistreatment is often rooted in the lack of housing, food and other basic resources.
—Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said tenant mistreatment is troubling, but state law restricts what the city can do.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Former detainees and international rights groups accuse him of personally participating in or directing harsh interrogation practices, including physical and psychological mistreatment.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
The most recent complaint against Merriam asserts that clerks have begun leaving Merriam’s staff or declining employment because of concern about mistreatment.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
Advertisement For Black communities in particular, viral videos showing mistreatment in medical settings and continued maternal health disparities were not new revelations.
—Uché Blackstock, Time, 23 Dec. 2025
Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
Those choosing the first option (agreement) will find that what follows is not respect, but mistreatment; those choosing the second (returning fire) are merely providing confirmation of what your hosts already believe — as well as fresh material for their next round of insults.
—Judith Martin, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
But would even the biggest box-office bump justify such roughshod mistreatment of primary material?
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
But now the American Enterprise Institute enters the fray, ignoring the evidence that mistreatment is often rooted in the lack of housing, food and other basic resources.
—Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said tenant mistreatment is troubling, but state law restricts what the city can do.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Former detainees and international rights groups accuse him of personally participating in or directing harsh interrogation practices, including physical and psychological mistreatment.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
The most recent complaint against Merriam asserts that clerks have begun leaving Merriam’s staff or declining employment because of concern about mistreatment.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2026
Advertisement For Black communities in particular, viral videos showing mistreatment in medical settings and continued maternal health disparities were not new revelations.
—Uché Blackstock, Time, 23 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistreatment
Noun
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No one involved in this study claims that cash assistance is the only or even the best solution for child maltreatment.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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In the antebellum years and during Reconstruction, conjure women told mermaid stories that empowered women and girls, where the mermaids’ struggles for freedom mirrored their own experiences of domestic abuse or reproductive maltreatment during slavery.—
Time,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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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
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On the stand, Nash testified to Combs’ ill-treatment Fine during the years he was employed.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Altadena awaits the official cause of the Eaton fire, but survivors and plaintiff attorneys in hundreds of lawsuits point to the public utility Southern California Edison as being at fault for its equipment and mismanagement sparking the blaze in the foothills above the town.—
David Wilson,
Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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More than a century of overfishing, industrialization, and hatchery mismanagement has brought several populations of salmon and their close relative the steelhead to critically low levels in the Pacific Northwest.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Instead of taking responsibility for the mishandling of the snow removal, Bilandic lashed out, saying police would be ticketing vehicles and ordering them towed if not removed from Chicago’s streets.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Leavitt’s statement confirms speculation that the federal government is weighing whether to hold Walz responsible for his alleged mishandling of the fraud investigations in his state.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Mistreatment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistreatment. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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