Roughing up

Usage examples of mistreating.

She could see herself doing that, though she was more likely to take a whip to anyone mistreating one of her babies, or any horse at all, for that matter.

Now get off our property, and if I ever see you mistreating an animal again, I'll have you brought up on charges of cruelty.

She'd had the self-confidence, or pure foolhardiness, to confront that awful man in the woods today and force him to stop mistreating that horse.

He mistreats my friend in every way any guy ever thought of mistreating a doll, and besides the old established ways of mistreating a doll, Frank thinks up quite a number of new ways, being really quite ingenious in this respect.

mistreating you would have been just as bad as mistreating some idiot child.

And I could argue that naval efficiency will suffer if our people expect the other side to violate the Accords and that mistreating, No, better stay away from the idea of mistreating.