MISTREAT in a Sentence

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For MISTREAT, below is one of 4 sentences:
Prince Charming could not express the odium he felt toward Cinderella's stepsisters because of their mistreatment of poor Cinderella.

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 Meanings and Examples of MISTREAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mistreat
 v.  treat badly
Classic Sentence:
1  These convicts were so far away from everything, so completely at the mercy of Johnnie Gallegher, and if he chose to whip them or otherwise mistreat them, she would probably never know about it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
2  Hard tales of cruelty and mistreatment of the chained freemen are told, but the county authorities were deaf until the free-labor market was nearly ruined by wholesale migration.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Deep down below the slavery and servitude of the Negro people he saw their fatal weaknesses, which long years of mistreatment had emphasized.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
Example Sentence:
1  Prince Charming could not express the odium he felt toward Cinderella's stepsisters because of their mistreatment of poor Cinderella.