mistreat

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

“She would roll in her grave if she knew that in her death people would create a situation where people were going to mistreat bears, because she loved bears.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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

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

When a jerk mistreats us, it can help to have an understanding of why they’ve behaved like a jerk.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

If a mentor mistreats his tributes, he'll be held accountable by the viewers, by the people back in District 12.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

“Even in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor,” Mr. Fukuyama writes, “there were kind Americans trying to help those mistreated by their own government.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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 the wake of an internal report alleging that Riverside code enforcement officers mistreated street vendors and entered homes without warrants, advocates have questions:

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Bilal Mohammad appeared to be extremely distressed, shouting that he was being mistreated .

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Dudley was frowning slightly, as though he was still trying to work out when he had ever been mistreated.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Before the Rand Refinery can handle the metal, it needs to ensure it is mined in a responsible manner, including without damaging the environment, mistreating workers or funding corrupt officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The rest of the family has been in an increasingly tense dispute with Hochman over the case, accusing the district attorney of mistreating them in private meetings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

"It's a job to stop them," says the swan marker, and he hopes that working with schools will help to educate young people away from mistreating swans.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024

Bowden-Lewis also was accused of a pattern of mistreating employees, refusing to acknowledge the commission’s authority, disregarding its directives and improperly ordering a subordinate to search the emails of employees and Palmer without their knowledge.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Nazi propaganda had led the German people to believe that the Poles were mistreating ethnic Germans living in Poland.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti