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mistreatments

mistreatments is the plural of mistreatment.

Meaning of mistreatment

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.
    Synonyms:
    maltreatment

Questions about mistreatments

What is mistreatments the plural of?
Mistreatments is the plural of mistreatment.

Words near mistreatments in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistreatments (page history and authors); mistreatment (page history and authors). 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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