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say it: mi-STREET-muhnt
mistreatment is a noun meaning "the practice of treating (someone or something) badly". It carries one recorded sense.
the practice of treating (someone or something) badly
“he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mistreatment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.