Usually means: Improper, harmful treatment of someone.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word mistreatment:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. mistreatment: Merriam-Webster
  2. mistreatment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mistreatment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mistreatment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mistreatment, mistreatment: Wordnik
  6. mistreatment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mistreatment: Wiktionary
  8. Mistreatment, mistreatment: Dictionary.com
  9. mistreatment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Mistreatment (film), Mistreatment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Mistreatment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. mistreatment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. mistreatment: Rhymezone
  14. Mistreatment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. mistreatment: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mistreatment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mistreatment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mistreatment: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mistreatment (see Abuse): Merck Manuals
  2. mistreatment: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mistreatment)

▸ noun:  Cruel, abusive, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (or rarely an object).

Similar:
mishandle, maltreatment, misusage, abuse, ill-use, ill-usage, mispractice, misuse, mistreater, misbehavior, more...

Opposite:
respect, admiration, reverence

Types:
physical, emotional, sexual, verbal, financial, spiritual, more...

Phrases:
sexual mistreatment, more...

Adjectives:
elder, physical, such, alleged, brutal, past, gross, parental, further, sexual, systematic

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Similar:
mishandle, maltreatment, misusage, abuse, ill-use, ill-usage, mispractice, misuse, mistreater, misbehavior, more...

Opposite:
respect, admiration, reverence

Types:
physical, emotional, sexual, verbal, financial, spiritual, more...

Phrases:
sexual mistreatment, more...

Adjectives:
elder, physical, such, alleged, brutal, past, gross, parental, further, sexual, systematic

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     dark gray,     brown, more...



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