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

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

The stunt was meant to support critics of SeaWorld who assert that the park mistreats its orcas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

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

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

"He was very rude, he disrespected me and mistreated me on the phone," Michelle Bolsonaro, 44, told her 8.2 million Instagram followers about her stepson Flavio Bolsonaro, 45.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 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

The BBC's Disclosure and File on 4 investigation featured contributions from former workers from the Philippines, Ghana and India who alleged they had been mistreated by the company.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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

The family doctor, after he had examined Cathy, could find no evidence that she had been mistreated.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The company said at the time through a lawyer that they denied mistreating bodies.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025

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

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

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

From New York Times ● May 2, 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