Crossword clues for mistreatment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistreatment \Mis*treat"ment\, n. Wrong treatment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1716, from mistreat + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. improper treatment, abuse.
WordNet
n. the practice of treating (someone or something) badly; "he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother"
Wikipedia
Mistreatment (, also known as Assault and Battery) is a 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Lars Lennart Forsberg. The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and Forsberg won the Guldbagge Award for Best Director at the 7th Guldbagge Awards.
Usage examples of "mistreatment".
There were, actually, good and kindly people who read Swift pamphlet with indignation, not at the mistreatment of the Irish, but at Swift apparently callous and immoral advocacy of cannibalism.
In part, my apprehensions are explained by my appreciating that many feminist readers of Kundera are plainly offended by his representations of women and by the mistreatment of women found throughout his fiction.
Out of these questions emerge the concerns of innumerable feminists that postmodernism and deconstruction may very well theorize to an abstraction the lived experience of women or divert attention away from mistreatment in the rush to revel in the more playful eccentricities of theory and ambiguity.
Balanced within the tension of opposites, the argument that Kundera consistently misrepresents women or fails to offer alternatives to their abuse and mistreatment is as viable as the claim that he exposes, critiques, and deconstructs, even though this double possibility must mean that the edge of both arguments is dulled.
Two years of mistreatment had not marred the finish too much, although the case was scuffed here and there, and had been torn and remended with tiny, careful stitches along the belly.
On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt.
She was assigned to the Second District, not a heavy crime area, and was almost instantly appalled by what she said she saw on the street and within the department: graft, corruption, drinking on duty, drug abuse, oral sex with prostitutes, mistreatment of suspects.
How could she, she asked us almost light-heartedly, be aggrieved at her own mistreatment -- which albeit hurtsome had not been fatal, after all -- when in addition to sparing others the same or worse, it had so plainly done its doer a campus of good?
Diego had been a thundercloud ready to burst until Ardis had reassured him that, except for the possible damage to her tail, the lead dog would completely recover from her mistreatment.