Mistreat
verb
To treat someone or something very badly or unfair.
Animals should never be mistreated in any way.
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- mistreat animals
- mistreat people
verb
To use something in a wrongful or inappropriate way.
He mistreated the company's funds for his own gain.
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- mistreat authority
- mistreat privilege
verb
To treat someone or something very badly or unfair.
Animals should never be mistreated in any way.
Often appears as...
- mistreat animals
- mistreat people
verb
To use something in a wrongful or inappropriate way.
He mistreated the company's funds for his own gain.
Often appears as...
- mistreat authority
- mistreat privilege
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Using 'mistreat' often implies cruelty and sparks negative feelings towards the perpetrator.
News reports revealed that the workers were being mistreated by the company.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Wrongdoing
'Mistreat' suggests a serious degree of wrongdoing, not just a small mistake or error.
The documentary highlighted how the zoo mistreated its animals.
Pro Tip 3/3Consequence Awareness
When you say someone mistreats others, it often means that there could be legal or social consequences.
The manager was fired for mistreating the staff.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Using 'mistreat' often implies cruelty and sparks negative feelings towards the perpetrator.
News reports revealed that the workers were being mistreated by the company.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Wrongdoing
'Mistreat' suggests a serious degree of wrongdoing, not just a small mistake or error.
The documentary highlighted how the zoo mistreated its animals.
Pro Tip 3/3Consequence Awareness
When you say someone mistreats others, it often means that there could be legal or social consequences.
The manager was fired for mistreating the staff.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Using 'mistreat' often implies cruelty and sparks negative feelings towards the perpetrator.
News reports revealed that the workers were being mistreated by the company.
Pro Tip 2/3Strong Wrongdoing
'Mistreat' suggests a serious degree of wrongdoing, not just a small mistake or error.
The documentary highlighted how the zoo mistreated its animals.
Pro Tip 3/3Consequence Awareness
When you say someone mistreats others, it often means that there could be legal or social consequences.
The manager was fired for mistreating the staff.
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The most successful...
Madame Zheng consolidated her power through strict military discipline combined with a surprisingly progressive code of laws. Female captives were theoretically protected from sexual assault, and while pirates could take them as wives, mistreatment or infidelity towards them was punishable by death.
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Steven Pinker and...
wife-beating, gay-bashing ancestors? I'm sure everyone here could think of an example. I opt for the mistreatment of animals in factory farms. The imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders and the toleration of rape in our nation's prisons. Scrimping on donations to life-saving charities
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James Robertson: The...
frontlines the life expectancy under fire was measured in a matter of minutes for every horse killed in battle three others died from exhaustion starvation exposure mistreatment and such widespread diseases as Glenda's and sore
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The business logic of...
solution to a very important part of this larger problem with the requisite focus on climate and the solution I offer is to the biggest culprit in this massive mistreatment of the earth by humankind and the resulting decline of
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Designing for a more...
education and even oppression which is the mistreatment of others and scale these are all systems that were designed by people when I shifted my understanding of design from object making to systems building I began to
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Why should you read...
Her domestic dissatisfaction and her husband’s mistreatment of her are constant themes in her later poetry. After her death, he inherited her estate, and has been accused of excluding some of her work from publication.
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4 signs of emotional...
their perceptions of their own mistreatment. So let’s walk through some of the most common signs of emotional abuse, to make these behaviors and patterns easier to spot in real life. First, the content of someone’s
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Why elephants never...
ivory poaching in Africa, and mistreatment in captivity worldwide. Given what we now know about elephants and what they continue to teach us about animal intelligence, it is more important than ever to ensure
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Ray Anderson: The...
to a very important part of this larger problem, with the requisite focus on climate. And the solution I offer is to the biggest culprit in this massive mistreatment of the earth
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Jane Walsh: The rise of...
We can improve how the system responds to their mistreatment. We can ramp up prevention, we can raise awareness, and we can do a better job protecting our own friends and family.
Video examples
The most successful...
Madame Zheng consolidated her power through strict military discipline combined with a surprisingly progressive code of laws. Female captives were theoretically protected from sexual assault, and while pirates could take them as wives, mistreatment or infidelity towards them was punishable by death.
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
wife-beating, gay-bashing ancestors? I'm sure everyone here could think of an example. I opt for the mistreatment of animals in factory farms. The imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders and the toleration of rape in our nation's prisons. Scrimping on donations to life-saving charities
Video examples
James Robertson: The...
frontlines the life expectancy under fire was measured in a matter of minutes for every horse killed in battle three others died from exhaustion starvation exposure mistreatment and such widespread diseases as Glenda's and sore
Video examples
The business logic of...
solution to a very important part of this larger problem with the requisite focus on climate and the solution I offer is to the biggest culprit in this massive mistreatment of the earth by humankind and the resulting decline of
Video examples
Designing for a more...
education and even oppression which is the mistreatment of others and scale these are all systems that were designed by people when I shifted my understanding of design from object making to systems building I began to
Video examples
Why should you read...
Her domestic dissatisfaction and her husband’s mistreatment of her are constant themes in her later poetry. After her death, he inherited her estate, and has been accused of excluding some of her work from publication.
Video examples
4 signs of emotional...
their perceptions of their own mistreatment. So let’s walk through some of the most common signs of emotional abuse, to make these behaviors and patterns easier to spot in real life. First, the content of someone’s
Video examples
Why elephants never...
ivory poaching in Africa, and mistreatment in captivity worldwide. Given what we now know about elephants and what they continue to teach us about animal intelligence, it is more important than ever to ensure
Video examples
Ray Anderson: The...
to a very important part of this larger problem, with the requisite focus on climate. And the solution I offer is to the biggest culprit in this massive mistreatment of the earth
Video examples
Jane Walsh: The rise of...
We can improve how the system responds to their mistreatment. We can ramp up prevention, we can raise awareness, and we can do a better job protecting our own friends and family.
Example 1 of 10
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Eric Schlosser
American Journalist
I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.
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Tim Wise
American Activist
Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.
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Goldlink
American Rapper
Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we 'loved each other.' It was a young love, not a forever love.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
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Luvvie Ajayi
Nigerian Author
I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it.
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Alice Miller
Swiss Psychologist
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
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Melissa Leo
American Actress
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
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Casey Affleck
American Actor
I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else.
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Alexis Arguello
Nicaraguan Athlete
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
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Eric Schlosser
American Journalist
I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.
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Tim Wise
American Activist
Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.
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Goldlink
American Rapper
Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we 'loved each other.' It was a young love, not a forever love.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.
Quote examples
Joyce Meyer
American Author
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
Quote examples
Luvvie Ajayi
Nigerian Author
I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it.
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Alice Miller
Swiss Psychologist
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
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Melissa Leo
American Actress
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
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Casey Affleck
American Actor
I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else.
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Alexis Arguello
Nicaraguan Athlete
See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.
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