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How to use mistreat in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb

Mistreat means to treat someone, or something roughly or badly. Example: “The real problem is the fact that the industry mistreats its workers.”

Examples of mistreat by meaning

verbTo administer an incorrect treatment to a patient.

  • The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are 'mistreated with penicillin.1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8

More sentences with mistreat

  • The real problem is the fact that the industry mistreats its workers.From the entry the fact that
  • He was mistreated while in police custody.From the entry custody
  • But the cafes are staffed by Chinese workers who mistreat their clientele, Uyghurs there said.[2009 February 6, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Ethnic Tensions in Xinjiang’s Internet Cafes”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free…. From the entry Xayar
  • Keaton's new wife takes him home to her father and brothers, who all mistreat him terribly.2007, Lisa Trahair, The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick, State University of New York Press, Albany…. From the entry Cinderfella
  • The Codies seem to take great delight in mistreating their little pet egg, Dizzy.1992, James Leach, Bubble Dizzy (game review in Your Sinclair magazine issue 74, February 1992). From the entry Codies
  • Without histopathologic and immunophenotypic confirmation, patients would have been misenrolled and mistreated, compromising their care and study objectives.2018, Tamiwe Tomoka, Nathan D. Montgomery, Eric Powers, Bal Mukunda Dhungel, Elizabeth A. Morgan, Maurice Mulenga, Satish Gopal, Uri…. From the entry misenrol
  • I can't stand to see them mistreated.1992, Robin Leigh, The Hawk and the Heather, page 179. From the entry cabbagehead
  • Others contend that women mistreat one another because of hyperemotionality, leading them to become overly invested in insignificant nuances and causing them to hold grudges.2009 January 11, Peggy Klaus, “A Sisterhood of Workplace Infighting”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperemotionality
  • The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are mistreated with penicillin.1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry treponeme

Meaning of mistreat

  1. verb To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
  2. verb To administer an incorrect treatment to a patient.

Full definition of mistreat

Questions about mistreat in a sentence

How do you use mistreat in a sentence?
Mistreat is used as a verb. For example: “The real problem is the fact that the industry mistreats its workers.”
What is a short sentence with mistreat?
“He was mistreated while in police custody.”
What does mistreat mean?
Mistreat means to treat someone, or something roughly or badly.

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