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  • verb Present participle of mistreat.

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Examples

  • Incidentally, I don't know who your insurance company is, but this health insurance one area where the government will have to work really really hard to outdo the private sector in mistreating people.

    Discourse.net: We Are Going to be E-Verified 2009

  • Incidentally, I don't know who your insurance company is, but this health insurance one area where the government will have to work really really hard to outdo the private sector in mistreating people.

    Discourse.net: We Are Going to be E-Verified 2009

  • But that's no excuse to half-kill your son, Al thought angrily, his blood still running hot at the memory, as would the blood of any of the Fair Folk at the idea of mistreating a child.

    Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • But that's no excuse to half-kill your son, Al thought angrily, his blood still running hot at the memory, as would the blood of any of the Fair Folk at the idea of mistreating a child.

    The Otherworld Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • I don't support the notion of mistreating cats, and I especially don't support the notion of treating cats unusually well, by which I mean better than dogs.

    NashvilleScene.com 2009

  • They'll all have a lot of explaining to do the next time one of our captured soldiers is mistreated - oh that's right, there's no longer such a thing as "mistreating" a captured soldier.

    02/03/2005 2005

  • Why wouldn't the cruel and heartless taking out of my hostilities and frustrations on an inanimate punching bag be just as morally wrong as 'mistreating' my robot?

    Official Song of the Althouse/Goldberg Diavlog. Ann Althouse 2006

  • NEW DELHI - A group of cabinet ministers and MPs from Tamil Nadu Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to send a team to Sri Lanka where they said the military was "mistreating" Tamils displaced by the war and interned in camps.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Gurmukh Singh 2010

  • NEW DELHI - A group of cabinet ministers and MPs from Tamil Nadu Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to send a team to Sri Lanka where they said the military was "mistreating" Tamils displaced by the war and interned in camps.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Gurmukh Singh 2010

  • Britain should apologise to a former Bosnian president for "mistreating" him in prison, the chairman of the joint presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina said.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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