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Mistreat   /mɪstrˈit/   Listen
Mistreat

verb
1.
Treat badly.  Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step.  "She is always stepping on others to get ahead"



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"Mistreat" Quotes from Famous Books



... I trust to you," she murmured. "You could not mistreat me so! I beseech it of you, take me to the Palace where ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

... back to the illustration of the little brother and his task. As he is working from love to his big brother, in the big brother's field, the bad boys follow him and tempt him, and prevail on him to leave the big brother's field and to mistreat the big brother. The father sees it all; goes and takes the little brother out into the forest and reproves him for his wrong to his big brother, and then chastises him and sends him back to the big brother's field. So, when God's redeemed, saved children backslide, do wrong wilfully, ...
— God's Plan with Men • T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin



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