mistreat

Zambian union leaders said Chinese managers pay poorly and mistreat workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

One attendee had even brought her sign from 2017, a verse from Leviticus in English and in Hebrew: “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.”

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2025

And he said, ‘Well, I mean, what is your assessment? It looks quite scary. So, when the protests end, do you think you are willing to say that we did not mistreat you in prison?’

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

There are a lot of people who mistreat dogs and take dogs for granted.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

He demanded so much, promised with such insistence that he would not mistreat the things, that Úrsula gave him the keys.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

After a decade-long battle, a former animal trainer has succeeded in his mission of getting a beloved walrus out of Canada's most popular aquatic zoo, which has faced allegations that it mistreats its animals.

From BBC ● May 17, 2023

In the second passage, an excerpt from Petronius’s Satyricon, the formerly enslaved Trimalchio mistreats his own enslaved people during a lavish dinner party.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

It's not perfect, but it is duty-bound to best uphold the ideals of society even if it mistreats people.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2022

All of which makes Ruland’s title double-edged: Corporate rock sucks, as SST’s slogan put it, because it’s litigious and exploits an economy of scale that mistreats individual artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

And I don’t feel like anybody mistreats me or anything, except sometimes people act too nice, too polite, like they’re afraid they might ask the wrong question .

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

They have called adult protective services repeatedly, claiming that their mom is being mistreated, court documents show, and have tried to monitor her own whereabouts, Ruth said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

In an interview in 1980, Donald Trump called the entire hostage episode a horror and said it was ridiculous that the U.S. allowed its people to be mistreated for so long.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

"I always said that he never mistreated me," she said at the time.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Throughout, she’ll allude to stories of mistreated animals and the Griffith Park fire of 1933, heightening the sense that we are in the presence of unnatural occurrences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

"You were not mistreated, I trust," he said after they had gone.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

They said his “egregious record of mistreating law enforcement officers, abusing power and disregarding the law itself disqualifies him for this position.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025

As well directly mistreating staff, Ms Perry said Lowe failed to "address the alleged toxic conduct" of male colleagues in the office, and refused to act on complaints.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025

Melinda and others believed Landy was exploiting and mistreating Wilson, and they feuded with Landy for years before he was barred in 1992 from any contact with Wilson.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

The patients she was accused of mistreating ranged in age from 43 to 104.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

“We are diligent in our Title IX compliance. We take this very seriously. There’s no room for mistreating people here.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely