mistreatment

IPA: mɪstrˈitmʌnt

Cruel, abusive , bad, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (only rarely of an object or a machine; usually: mishandle).

Examples of "mistreatment" in Sentences

This amounts to long-term mistreatment for information age skills.
The issue of human trafficking and migrant mistreatment is an issue which many Malaysians feel strongly about.
Every time you turn the other cheek to mistreatment from a man, you are enabling him to do it again to someone else.
Access to counsel for the purpose of protecting the citizen from official mistakes and mistreatment is the hallmark of due process.
If, contrary to what he has been led to believe, this mistreatment is not forthcoming, he is apt to become psychologically softened for interrogation.
TheAmerican Citizen Services Unit will visit American prisoners to asses reasonable treatment - within the norms of Mexican jails, and where mistreatment is believed to have occurred, file a Protest.
A very close relative of mine, a young lady, tired of what she called mistreatment by her husband, filed for divorce in a Tehran court recently and was granted, not only fully one-half of what the couple mutually owned, but also the formal custody of their two children.