Example Sentences

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She is the anti-diva, only “throwing a bit of a fit” if she sees a director is mistreating or scapegoating subordinates.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2019

To say that a childless person has no standing to be concerned when, say, a parent is mistreating a kid, is just hostile to people without kids.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2017

To say that a childless person has no standing to be concerned when, say, a parent is mistreating a kid is just hostile to people without kids.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2017

If a narcissist is mistreating you, here is a strategy for handling the situation: find a way to be assertive while assuaging his or her sensitive ego.

From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2013

Ask him, however, if any one is mistreating him and you will start a train of thought in which one fancied insult leads to another or to delusions which do not represent mistreatment at all.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various