Definition for Maltreatment:

• In reference to the treatment of his patient by a surgeon, this term signifies improper or unskillful treatment ; it may result either from ignorance, neglect, or willfulness; but the word does not necessarily imply that the conduct of the surgeon, in his treatment of the patient, is either willfully or grossly careless. Com. v. Hackett, 2 Allen ( Mass.) 142.

Synonyms for Maltreatment:

• n.

  •
  • evil,
  • Brutalities,
  • barbarism,
  • savagery.
  •ill-treatment (noun)
  • ill-treatment.
  •ill-usage (noun)
  • ill-usage.
  •penalty (noun)
  • punishment.
  •persecution (noun)
  • provokings,
  • teasings,
  • gallings.
  •punishment (noun)
  • injury,
  • violation.
  •rape (noun)
  • molestations,
  • molestation,
  • spoliations,
  • plunderings,
  • spoliation,
  • criminal attack,
  • forcible violation,
  • statutory offense,
  • despoilment.
  •unjustness (noun)
  • un justnesses,
  • un-justnesses,
  • un justness,
  • un-justness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bestiality,
  • harassment,
  • acidity,
  • bullying,
  • inhumanity,
  • alienation,
  • rejection,
  • atrocity,
  • cruelty,
  • cynicism,
  • brutality,
  • sadism,
  • Elder Abuse,
  • despotism,
  • poison,
  • killer instinct,
  • self-interest,
  • exploitation.
  •
  • excess,
  • tyranny.

Paraphrases for Maltreatment:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    ill-treatment, mistreatment.
  • Proper noun, singular
    ill-treatment, mistreatment, abuses.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    ill-treatment, mistreatment.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    ill-treatment.
  • Verb, base form
    ill-treatment, mistreatment.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    abusive, ill-treating.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    illtreatment, neglect, harassment, beating, brutality.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    cruelty.
  • Proper noun, singular
    cruelty.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cruelty.

Antonyms for Maltreatment:

• n.

  • punishment
    aid, help.

Maltreatment Sentence Examples:

• The incorrigible frontiersmen had again let loose their murdering propensities; and a multitude of squatters had built their cabins on Indian lands beyond the limits of Pennsylvania, adding insult to aggression, and sparing neither oaths, curses, nor any form of abuse and maltreatment against the rightful owners of the soil.

• The fact that it did not and that several of the London capitalist papers treated the whole South African episode as a good joke at the expense of Labour is evidence that to a good many Englishmen the maltreatment of British citizens is not in itself an objectionable thing, provided it happens within the British Empire.