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mistreatment

mistreatment noun: cruel, abusive, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (or rarely an object).

Noun

mistreatment (countable and uncountable, plural mistreatments)

  1. Cruel, abusive, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (or rarely an object).
    • There were allegations of mistreatment at the prison.
    • I was appalled at the mistreatment meted out to them.
    Synonyms:
    maltreatment

mistreatment meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Indonesian

mistreatment in Tamil

மோசமாக, முரட்டுத்தனமாக, முறைகேடாக நடத்துதல், கொடுமை

mistreatment in Urdu

بدسلوکی

mistreatment in Malayalam

maltreatment, ill-treatment, abuse
തെറ്റായ പെരുമാറ്റം, നിന്ദിക്കൽ, അവഹേളനം, ഹീനമായ പെരുമാറ്റം, ഭേദ്യം, മോശമായ പെരുമാറ്റം

mistreatment in Indonesian

improper treatment
penganiayaan

Synonyms of mistreatment

Forms of mistreatment

pluralmistreatments

Origin of mistreatment

From mistreat + -ment.

Questions about mistreatment

What does mistreatment mean?
Mistreatment means cruel, abusive, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (or rarely an object).
What is mistreatment in Tamil?
Mistreatment in Tamil is மோசமாக, முரட்டுத்தனமாக, முறைகேடாக நடத்துதல். See Mistreatment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mistreatment?
Mistreatment is a noun.
What is the plural of mistreatment?
The plural of mistreatment is mistreatments.

Words near mistreatment in the dictionary

  1. mistreat
  2. mistreated
  3. mistreater
  4. mistreaters
  5. mistreating
  6. mistreatment
  7. mistreatments
  8. mistreats
  9. mistress
  10. mistress of ceremonies
  11. mistress of the robes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mistreatment (page history and authors); mistreatment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mistreatment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mistreatment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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