mistreat
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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
There are a lot of people who mistreat dogs and take dogs for granted.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
"It is the public's game and if they choose to mistreat it then they are at risk of losing it," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
“Us — mistreat Dudders? What d’you — ?” began Uncle Vernon furiously, but Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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
Bilal Mohammad appeared to be extremely distressed, shouting that he was being mistreated .
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
“Paul and I saw the characters as two brothers who have a common father in God, and they both feel that they’re being mistreated in some way,” Sharpe adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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
So could anyone say they were being mistreated?
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
After reporting Lopez missing last September, Lopez’s daughter told a detective that Yepez had been mistreating her mother at work, the police report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
The patients she was accused of mistreating ranged in age from 43 to 104.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
“It’s never a good look when people think you’re mistreating animals,” Stewart said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 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
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