mistreatment

English

Etymology

From mistreat +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

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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

Translations

improper treatment

• Dutch: mishandeling (nl) f
• German: Misshandlung (de) f, schlechte Behandlung f, Schinderei (de) f
• Indonesian: penganiayaan (id)
• Latin: contumēlia f
• Maori: rurerurenga, tūkinonga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mishandling m or f

  Nynorsk: mishandling f

• Portuguese: destrato (pt) m, judiação f
• Serbo-Croatian: loše postupanje n, zlostavljanje (sh), maltretiranje

See also

• mishandling