mistreatment

noun

as in maltreatment

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Recent Examples of mistreatment 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 The closure caps mounting scrutiny of Utah’s troubled-teen industry, as families sue Provo Canyon over alleged mistreatment and Hilton’s advocacy helps drive new safeguards for youth nationwide. — Kathy McCormack, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026 In 2017, still a puppy, he was rescued from abandonment and mistreatment by the Asociación Pro Defensa de los Animales, which restored his health and, with it, his chances. — Luis E. Romero, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 The displacement and mistreatment of Native Americans increasingly became a focus of concern in the 1960s. — New York Times, 28 June 2026 Since the facility opened, detainees and their families have complained of mistreatment and torture. — Miami Herald, 26 June 2026 The filing further accuses Jenner and her co-defendants of failing to adequately support the chef despite knowing about her health circumstances, mistreatment and wishes to remain employed. — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 25 June 2026 Their drama is already stale, and between Nathan’s touchiness and Joe’s mistreatment of women, their fight over who is a better guy, a better seaman, a better worker, a better boyfriend is disengaging at best and aggravating at worst. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistreatment
  1. maltreatment
  2. ill-treatment
  3. mismanagement
  4. mishandling
Noun
  • Three other employees were charged with permitting child abuse and failure to report child maltreatment.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 15 July 2026
  • 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
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
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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
Definition of mismanagement
Noun
  • Shilts made history as the first out gay reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and then again with this landmark book about the mishandling of the AIDS crisis in its early days.
    — Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
  • Special Counsel Robert Hur had obtained these recordings as part of his probe into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents from his time as vice president and senator.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Definition of mishandling

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