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Definition of Mistreats
1. mistreat [v] - See also: mistreat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistreats
Literary usage of Mistreats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ohio Law Journal (1883)
"When a husband mistreats his wife so that she can not live with him, and keeps
another woman in the same house with her, under such circumstances as to ..."
2. The Unwritten South: Cause, Progress and Result of the Civil War, Relics of by J. Clarence Stonebraker (1908)
"He who mistreats a negro, because he is a negro, is no gentleman, plainly and
unequivocally; neither is he who mistreats him by deceiving into believing ..."
3. Every where by Will Carleton (1910)
"How does a man know when he mistreats one of us, but that he mistreats the soul
that will animate a remote descendant of himself? ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1900)
"No sheriff can long stand the publication through the State that his jail is
dirty, or that common decencies are not observed, or that he mistreats his ..."
5. A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the United by George Elliott Howard (1904)
"... forced by intolerable suffering to leave the husband who mistreats her and
denies her proper support, this should be counted as repudiation by the man, ..."
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