mistreatv.
/ˌmɪsˈtriːt/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈtrit/ transitive. To treat badly or wrongly; to ill-treat.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harshness > [verb (transitive)]
misbedeOE
wait1303
beshrewc1325
misusea1382
mistreat1453
mishandle1530
misorder1550
mumble1588
maltreat1681
ill-treat1794
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)]
tuckc888
tawc893
misbedeOE
graithc1330
to fare fair or foul with1340
misusea1382
outrayc1390
beshrewc1430
huspelc1440
misentreat1450
mistreat1453
abuse?1473
to mayne evil1481
demean1483
to put (a person) to villainya1513
harry1530
mishandle1530
touse1531
misorder1550
worrya1556
yark1565
mumble1588
buse1589
crow-tread1593
disabuse1607
maltreat1681
squeeze1691
ill-treat1794
punish1801
tousle1826
ill-use1841
razoo1890
mess1896
to play horse with1896
to bugger about1921
slug1925
to give (a person) the works1927
to kick about or around1938
mess1963
1453 [implied in: Rolls of Parl. V. 270/2 To th' endaungeryng, trouble, and mistretyng of all Ladies. (at mistreating n.)].
a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 660 For mys-treting lordes of his monarchye, He [sc. Richard II] feyne was to resign and in prysone dye.
?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 22 That thay sholde not mystrete the said Oweyne, lest he made the Walshmen arise.
1800 C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn II. 142 Yet she has not been mistreated. Neglected and abandoned indeed, but not mistreated.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xii. 77 I had seen many more patients die from being mistreated for consumption than from consumption itself.
1868 J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occasions 11 Where iron rule, stern precedent, Mistreat the graceful day.
1937 K. A. Porter Let. 15 Aug. (1990) iii. 150 No other country in the world so despises and mistreats the class of men who furnish it with food.
1993 Times 23 Feb. 2/7 (headline) Hunt master denies mistreating horse.
Derivatives
misˈtreated adj. ill-treated.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > [adjective]
misdighta1225
worried1559
ill-used1609
mishandleda1617
well-abused1648
spited1705
mistreated1799
misused1823
abused1826
maltreated1829
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harshness > [adjective] > treated thus
misusedc1480
mishandleda1617
mistreated1799
maltreated1829
1799 R. Southey Nondescripts iv, in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 65 A poor, mistreated, democratic beast.
1886 A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 42 She..ran counter to what Russians regarded as their traditional, though long mistreated régime.
1991 A. Brookner Closed Eye viii. 86 The mystique of the excitingly mistreated woman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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