What is "mistreat"

Usage examples of "mistreat".

Beryl had no desire to antagonize Targonne, who would most certainly run tattling to Malys that he was being mistreated.

Sir Whosis was still in a snit and launched a tirade about how his lady had been mistreated by all for some time and how I was just the latest and worst offender.

Zora realized that there was little likelihood that they would be mistreated by their captors, it being evident to her that the sheykh was impressed with the belief that the better the condition in which they could be presented to their prospective purchaser the more handsome the return that Abu Batn might hope to receive.

He had once told Ari and the Bedu that if he did not like Alta, or was mistreated there, he and Avatre would just leave.

Let us help the unfortunate ones instead of sending them to the asylums where they are mistreated, for it is not understood that the poor ones who are obsessed have to suffer because of the spirits who control them.

It may also be that low birthweight is a strong forecaster of poor parenting, since a mother who smokes or drinks or otherwise mistreats her baby in utero isn’t likely to turn things around just because the baby is born.

It may also be that low birthweight is a strong forecaster of poor parenting, since a mother who smokes or drinks or otherwise mistreats her baby in utero isn't likely to turn things around just because the baby is born.

They were not to be pathetic creatures that were unfairly persecuted so that I could make Aesopic statements about Jews, Blacks or any other mistreated members of society.

I was feeling down, and just in the mood to be bossed about and mistreated by someone big and dumb and domineering.

Belinda opened her trick bag and discovered she had eleventeen varieties of hell she could give me for mistreating my elders.

She thought he must have been mistreated before he'd shown up in her yard a few years before, but they had formed a truce.

He’d never mistreated a woman, but at the same time their influence on him had been very slight.

Yet what kind of woman can bear to let her little child be mistreated by thugs and do nothing, say nothing, simply continue to work as if she didn't care?

Each time we cower and let our children be mistreated, we love those children a little less, because it is only by not loving them as much that we can bear it to see them suffer.

That we mistreated the angels and that the Keeper loved angels, diggers, and humans as equals.