Definition of "mistreating" []

• Present participle of mistreat. (verb)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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."