mistreatment

Noun

Meaning

Wrong treatment.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true. Linda Chavez

Now, Michael is claiming racism. I'm going, "Honey, you gotta pick a race first." Baby, what are you claiming, mistreatment of elves? What are you saying? Robin Williams

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it. Rosa Parks

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. Chinua Achebe

Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of POWs under the Geneva Conventions. John Yoo

In my own therapy it was my experience that it was precisely the opposite of forgiveness -namely, rebellion against mistreatment suffered, the recognition and condemnation of my parents' destructive opinions and actions, and the articulation of my own needs- that ultimately freed me from the past. Alice Miller (psychologist)

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