mistreatment

English

Etymology

mistreat +‎ -ment

Noun

mistreatment (plural mistreatments)

1. Cruel, abusive , bad, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (only rarely of an object or a machine; usually: mishandle).

   There were allegations of mistreatment at the prison.

Synonyms

• maltreatment

Translations

improper treatment

• 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