"mistreatment" meaning in English

See mistreatment in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mistreatmeant.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mistreatment.wav Forms: mistreatments [plural]
Etymology: From mistreat + -ment. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mistreat|ment}} mistreat + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mistreatment (countable and uncountable, plural mistreatments)
  1. Cruel, abusive, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (or rarely an object). Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: maltreatment Related terms: mishandling Translations (improper treatment): mishandeling [feminine] (Dutch), Misshandlung [feminine] (German), schlechte Behandlung [feminine] (German), Schinderei [feminine] (German), penganiayaan (Indonesian), contumēlia [feminine] (Latin), rurerurenga (Maori), tūkinonga (Maori), mishandling [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), mishandling [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), destrato [masculine] (Portuguese), judiação [feminine] (Portuguese), loše postupanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), zlostavljanje (Serbo-Croatian), maltretiranje (Serbo-Croatian)

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