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mistreat

[ mis-treet ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

mistreat

/ ˌmɪsˈtriːt /

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English mistreten; mis- ¹, treat

That one human being has the capacity to so mistreat another is not news.

Their fears were groundless for Paul would never let a dog go hungry or mistreat a human being.

It is one of our peculiarities that we like to mistreat anyone whose soul is differently organized from ours.

Of his return to Ohio and of an attempt by a mob to capture and mistreat him we have his account in the Trumpet of Nov. 1.

If you have cruel step-parents who mistreat you out of pure meanness, everybody sympathizes with you.

When they found he was not so bad off as they thought, the two other boys began to abuse and mistreat the stranger.

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