mistreat
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Zambian union leaders said Chinese managers pay poorly and mistreat workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
“She would roll in her grave if she knew that in her death people would create a situation where people were going to mistreat bears, because she loved bears.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
One attendee had even brought her sign from 2017, a verse from Leviticus in English and in Hebrew: “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.”
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2025
There are a lot of people who mistreat dogs and take dogs for granted.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
“I will not allow you to mistreat an animal. Upstairs. Doors shut. No playing until I say you can,” he said.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
After a decade-long battle, a former animal trainer has succeeded in his mission of getting a beloved walrus out of Canada's most popular aquatic zoo, which has faced allegations that it mistreats its animals.
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
In the second passage, an excerpt from Petronius’s Satyricon, the formerly enslaved Trimalchio mistreats his own enslaved people during a lavish dinner party.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It's not perfect, but it is duty-bound to best uphold the ideals of society even if it mistreats people.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2022
In a performance in 1975, she paused mid-song to say, “I’ve given y’all this so if somebody mistreats you, just sing this song, and it’ll make you feel better, y’hear?”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
And I don’t feel like anybody mistreats me or anything, except sometimes people act too nice, too polite, like they’re afraid they might ask the wrong question .
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
They have called adult protective services repeatedly, claiming that their mom is being mistreated, court documents show, and have tried to monitor her own whereabouts, Ruth said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The Disclosure and File on 4 production featured contributions from former workers from the Philippines, Ghana and India who alleged they had been mistreated by the company.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
In an interview in 1980, Donald Trump called the entire hostage episode a horror and said it was ridiculous that the U.S. allowed its people to be mistreated for so long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
"I always said that he never mistreated me," she said at the time.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
"M'lord Littlefinger said only to bring you to him, and see that you were not mistreated."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
"It's a job to stop them," says the swan marker, and he hopes that working with schools will help to educate young people away from mistreating swans.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
The patients she was accused of mistreating ranged in age from 43 to 104.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
“It’s never a good look when people think you’re mistreating animals,” Stewart said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Not only that, Galavis was accused by the women of his season of mistreating them, which led to his top contestant and future Bachelorette, Clare Crowley, telling him off in the finale.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2024
“We are diligent in our Title IX compliance. We take this very seriously. There’s no room for mistreating people here.”
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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