[
UK
/mɪstɹˈiːtɪd/
]
[ US /mɪˈstɹitɪd/ ]
[ US /mɪˈstɹitɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
subjected to cruel treatment
an abused wife
How To Use mistreated In A Sentence
- We have received a complaint from some tourists about a bear being mistreated and kept in deplorable conditions in a snake farm in Pattaya.
- Telling them they have been lied to and mistreated is to ask them to frag their leaders; you are traitors to them and their leaders for engaging in this irresponsible speech.
- There were numerous stories and testimony about how the confined people were mistreated in the past.
- Subsequently, Wu could not adapt to life in Singapore and often felt that she was being mistreated by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, whom she called "calculative". Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
- The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments. Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
- A very ordinary rural chap (the Mirror piece certainly debunking the idea that he is a reclusive loner), he has understandably won mass public sympathy for the way he was mistreated.
- He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
- He is alleged to have mistreated the prisoners.
- I have often seen monilia infections mistaken for trichomoniasis and consequently mistreated with metronidazole. Getting Pregnant
- The term "race card", to those who understand it correctly, tends to suggest that someone was mistreated for reasons other than race and yet still insists that his/her mistreatment was due to race. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines