Exact Match:
- maltreatment
- cruel or inhumane treatment
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- abomination,
- abuse,
- atrocity,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- blasphemousness,
- blasphemy,
- contamination,
- crime,
- debasement,
- defilement,
- desecration,
- disgrace,
- dishonoring,
- disrespect,
- fouling,
- heresy,
- ignominy,
- impiety,
- impiousness,
- infamy,
- irreverence,
- maltreatment,
- misuse,
- offense,
- outrage,
- perversion,
- pity,
- profanation,
- profaneness,
- profanity,
- prostitution,
- sacrilegiousness,
- scandal,
- secularization,
- shame,
- sin,
- terrible thing,
- violation,
- vitiation
- punishment
collapse - the act of punishing related words >
- abuse,
- admonishment,
- admonition,
- amercement,
- avengement,
- banishment,
- battering,
- beating,
- caning,
- cashiering,
- castigating,
- castigation,
- chastening,
- chastisement,
- chastising,
- comeuppance,
- compensation,
- correction,
- criticism,
- damage,
- desert,
- deserts,
- discipline,
- disciplining,
- dressing-down,
- electrocution,
- excommunication,
- execution,
- exile,
- fine,
- flogging,
- hanging,
- harm,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- injury,
- just deserts,
- lashing,
- maltreatment,
- mauling,
- mulct,
- paddling,
- penal retribution,
- penalization,
- penalty,
- penance,
- price,
- punition,
- quittance,
- rebuke,
- recompense,
- reprisal,
- reproof,
- requital,
- retribution,
- revenge,
- reward,
- rod,
- scolding,
- scourging,
- sentence,
- sentencing,
- spanking,
- thrashing,
- torture,
- trouncing,
- what for,
- what is due,
- what is merited,
- whipping
- abuse,
- active use,
- appliance,
- application,
- atrocity,
- batter,
- bleed,
- bleed white,
- bruise,
- buffet,
- consumption,
- do violence to,
- do wrong by,
- do wrong to,
- drain,
- employ,
- employment,
- exercise,
- exertion,
- exploit,
- good use,
- hard usage,
- hard use,
- ill use,
- ill-treat,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- impose upon,
- injure,
- injury,
- knock about,
- make use of,
- maltreat,
- maltreatment,
- manhandle,
- manipulate,
- maul,
- milk,
- mishandle,
- mistreat,
- mistreatment,
- misuse,
- molest,
- molestation,
- outrage,
- play on,
- presume upon,
- rough,
- rough up,
- rough usage,
- savage,
- stroke,
- suck dry,
- take advantage of,
- usage,
- use,
- use ill,
- using up,
- violation,
- violence,
- work on,
- work upon,
- wrong use
- persecution
collapse
- the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion) related words >
- McCarthyism,
- abuse,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- bad news,
- bedevilment,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothersomeness,
- bullying,
- clawing,
- crashing bore,
- cruciation,
- crucifixion,
- devilment,
- difficulty,
- dogging,
- downer,
- drag,
- exasperation,
- harassing,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- headache,
- hectoring,
- hell,
- hell upon earth,
- holocaust,
- horror,
- hounding,
- ill-treatment,
- irritation,
- laceration,
- lancination,
- maltreatment,
- martyrdom,
- molestation,
- nightmare,
- nuisance,
- oppression,
- outrage,
- passion,
- pest,
- problem,
- punishment,
- purgatory,
- rack,
- red-baiting,
- subjugation,
- suppression,
- torment,
- tormenting,
- torture,
- trial,
- trouble,
- tyranny,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- victimization,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting,
- worriment,
- worry
- oppression
collapse
- the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"
- a feeling of being oppressed
- the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: "after years of oppression they finally revolted" related words >
- McCarthyism,
- Schmerz,
- Slough of Despond,
- abuse,
- affliction,
- airlessness,
- anguish,
- argumentum baculinum,
- bale,
- big stick,
- bitter cup,
- bitter draft,
- bitter draught,
- bitter pill,
- blank despondency,
- burden,
- burden of care,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- cargo,
- charge,
- charging,
- closeness,
- cross,
- crown of thorns,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- curse,
- deadweight,
- death wish,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- despair,
- despondency,
- despondentness,
- despotism,
- discouragement,
- disheartenment,
- dispiritedness,
- distress,
- domination,
- domineering,
- down trip,
- downcastness,
- downer,
- downheartedness,
- drag,
- drooping spirits,
- encumbrance,
- enslavement,
- fascism,
- freight,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- grievance,
- handicap,
- harassment,
- hardship,
- harrying,
- heartlessness,
- heavy hand,
- high hand,
- hopelessness,
- hounding,
- incubus,
- incumbency,
- infliction,
- injury,
- injustice,
- iron boot,
- iron hand,
- iron heel,
- lading,
- load,
- loading,
- low spirits,
- lowness,
- lowness of spirit,
- malaise,
- maltreatment,
- millstone,
- oppressiveness,
- overload,
- overtaxing,
- overweighting,
- pack of troubles,
- pain,
- peck of troubles,
- persecution,
- pessimism,
- pressure,
- red-baiting,
- reign of terror,
- repression,
- saddling,
- sea of troubles,
- self-destructive urge,
- sinking heart,
- sorrow,
- spiritlessness,
- stuffiness,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- suicidal despair,
- superincumbency,
- suppression,
- surcharge,
- taedium vitae,
- taxing,
- terrorism,
- thorn,
- thought control,
- torment,
- tormenting,
- torture,
- trouble,
- tyranny,
- victimization,
- waters of bitterness,
- weariness of life,
- weight,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting,
- woe
- violence
collapse
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
- a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. related words >
- Alecto,
- Megaera,
- Nemesis,
- Tisiphone,
- abuse,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- agitability,
- animality,
- argumentum baculinum,
- assault,
- astringency,
- atrociousness,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- beastliness,
- bestiality,
- bite,
- bitterness,
- bloodiness,
- bloodlust,
- bloodthirst,
- bloodthirstiness,
- bloody-mindedness,
- brutality,
- brutalness,
- brute force,
- brutishness,
- burning rage,
- cannibalism,
- causticity,
- clash,
- coercion,
- combustibility,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- cruelness,
- cruelty,
- damage,
- destructiveness,
- distort,
- do violence to,
- duress,
- edge,
- edginess,
- emotional instability,
- emotionalism,
- energy,
- eruptiveness,
- excitability,
- excitableness,
- explosiveness,
- ferociousness,
- ferocity,
- fiendishness,
- fierceness,
- foul,
- frenzy,
- furious rage,
- furor,
- fury,
- grip,
- harm,
- harshness,
- high pressure,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- inflammability,
- inhumaneness,
- inhumanity,
- injure,
- injury,
- intensity,
- intimidation,
- irascibility,
- irritability,
- keenness,
- latent violence,
- maltreatment,
- might,
- mightiness,
- mistreatment,
- molestation,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- murderousness,
- nervousness,
- outrage,
- passion,
- perturbability,
- physical force,
- poignancy,
- point,
- power,
- pressure,
- prickliness,
- rage,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- ruthlessness,
- sadism,
- sadistic cruelty,
- sanguineousness,
- savagery,
- sensitivity,
- severity,
- sharpness,
- skittishness,
- startlishness,
- sting,
- strength,
- stridency,
- stringency,
- strong-arm tactics,
- tartness,
- tearing passion,
- teeth,
- tempestuousness,
- the Erinyes,
- the Eumenides,
- the Furies,
- the big stick,
- the bludgeon,
- the club,
- the jackboot,
- the mailed fist,
- the strong arm,
- the sword,
- touchiness,
- towering rage,
- trenchancy,
- truculence,
- twist,
- uproar,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- viciousness,
- vigor,
- violation,
- virulence,
- wanton cruelty,
- warp,
- wildness
- atrocity
collapse
- an act of atrocious cruelty
- the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane related words >
- abomination,
- abuse,
- acuteness,
- affront,
- animality,
- aspersion,
- atrociousness,
- awfulness,
- bad,
- bane,
- banefulness,
- barbarity,
- befoulment,
- blight,
- bloodlust,
- breach,
- brickbat,
- brutality,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- corruption,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- cruelty,
- crying evil,
- cut,
- damage,
- deadly sin,
- defilement,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- desecration,
- despite,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- destructiveness,
- detriment,
- direness,
- disgrace,
- disservice,
- dreadfulness,
- dump,
- enormity,
- error,
- evil,
- extremity,
- failure,
- fault,
- felony,
- ferociousness,
- fierceness,
- flagitiousness,
- flout,
- flouting,
- force,
- furiousness,
- genocide,
- gibe,
- great wrong,
- grievance,
- grimness,
- gross injustice,
- guilty act,
- harm,
- harshness,
- havoc,
- heavy sin,
- heinousness,
- hideousness,
- horribleness,
- horridness,
- horror,
- humiliation,
- hurt,
- ignominy,
- ill,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- impetuosity,
- imposition,
- impropriety,
- inclemency,
- indignity,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infamy,
- infection,
- inhumanity,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- insult,
- intensity,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- knavery,
- lapse,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malignity,
- maltreatment,
- malum,
- mercilessness,
- mindlessness,
- minor wrong,
- miscarriage of justice,
- mischief,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misfeasance,
- mistreatment,
- mock,
- mockery,
- molestation,
- monstrousness,
- mortal sin,
- murderousness,
- nonfeasance,
- obliquity,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- pitilessness,
- pity,
- poison,
- pollution,
- profanation,
- put-down,
- raw deal,
- reprobacy,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- sacrilege,
- savagery,
- scandal,
- scoff,
- scurrility,
- severity,
- shame,
- sharpness,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- slip,
- taunt,
- terrible thing,
- terribleness,
- terrorism,
- the worst,
- tort,
- toxin,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- ungentleness,
- unutterable sin,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- venial sin,
- venom,
- vexation,
- viciousness,
- villainy,
- violation,
- violence,
- virulence,
- wickedness,
- woe,
- wrong
- violation
collapse
- an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" related words >
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- abnormality,
- abomination,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- abusing,
- assault,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- bad faith,
- battering,
- befoulment,
- betrayal,
- blasphemy,
- breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- break,
- breaking,
- butchery,
- civil disobedience,
- contravention,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- crime,
- criminal assault,
- criminality,
- debasement,
- debasing,
- debauchment,
- defacement,
- defalcation,
- defilement,
- defiling,
- defloration,
- deflowering,
- deflowerment,
- degradation,
- degrading,
- delict,
- delinquency,
- desecrating,
- desecration,
- despoilment,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- devirgination,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- dishonoring,
- disobedience,
- disorderliness,
- disregard,
- diversion,
- embezzlement,
- encroachment,
- felony,
- forcible seizure,
- fouling,
- frowardness,
- ignominy,
- ignoring,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- illegality,
- improperness,
- impropriety,
- inappropriateness,
- incorrectness,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- infamy,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- infringing,
- injury,
- insubordination,
- intractability,
- killing,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- laying waste,
- looting,
- maladministration,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- maltreatment,
- malversation,
- massacre,
- misapplication,
- misappropriation,
- misconduct,
- misdemeanor,
- misemployment,
- misfeasance,
- mishandling,
- mismanagement,
- mistreatment,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- molestation,
- naughtiness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obstreperousness,
- offense,
- onslaught,
- outrage,
- passive resistance,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- pilfering,
- pillaging,
- pity,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- priapism,
- profanation,
- profaning,
- prostitution,
- rape,
- ravage,
- ravishment,
- recusancy,
- riot,
- rioting,
- sacking,
- sacrilege,
- scandal,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- sexual assault,
- sexual possession,
- shame,
- sinfulness,
- slaughter,
- sowing with salt,
- taking,
- terrible thing,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unfitness,
- unfittingness,
- unlawfulness,
- unrighteousness,
- unruliness,
- unseemliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- unsuitability,
- violating,
- violence,
- waywardness,
- wickedness,
- willful disobedience,
- wrong,
- wrongdoing,
- wrongfulness,
- wrongness
- outrage
collapse
- a wantonly cruel act related words >
- abomination,
- abuse,
- afflict,
- affront,
- aggrieve,
- anger,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- bad,
- bane,
- barbarism,
- barbarity,
- batter,
- befoul,
- befoulment,
- bewitch,
- bitterness,
- blight,
- breach,
- brickbat,
- bruise,
- brutality,
- buffet,
- call names,
- chafe,
- condemn,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- corrupt,
- corruption,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- crucify,
- cruelty,
- crying evil,
- curse,
- cut,
- damage,
- deadly sin,
- defile,
- defilement,
- deflorate,
- deflower,
- delinquency,
- deprave,
- dereliction,
- desecrate,
- despite,
- despoil,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- disadvantage,
- dishonor,
- disoblige,
- displease,
- disserve,
- disservice,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do violence to,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- do wrong to,
- doom,
- dump,
- dump on,
- enormity,
- enrage,
- envenom,
- error,
- evil,
- failure,
- fault,
- felony,
- fleer at,
- flout,
- flouting,
- force,
- genocide,
- get into trouble,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- give offense,
- give offense to,
- give umbrage,
- great wrong,
- grievance,
- grieve,
- gross injustice,
- guilty act,
- harass,
- harm,
- havoc,
- heavy sin,
- hex,
- humiliate,
- humiliation,
- hurl a brickbat,
- hurt,
- hurt the feelings,
- ill,
- ill-treat,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- impair,
- imposition,
- impropriety,
- indignation,
- indignity,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infect,
- infection,
- infuriate,
- inhumanity,
- iniquity,
- injure,
- injury,
- injustice,
- insult,
- ire,
- jeer,
- jeer at,
- jeering,
- jibe at,
- jinx,
- knock about,
- lapse,
- madden,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malignity,
- maltreat,
- maltreatment,
- malum,
- manhandle,
- maul,
- menace,
- minor wrong,
- miscarriage of justice,
- mischief,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misfeasance,
- mishandle,
- mistreat,
- mistreatment,
- mock,
- mockery,
- molest,
- molestation,
- mortal sin,
- nettle,
- nonfeasance,
- offend,
- offense,
- omission,
- oppress,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- persecute,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- pollution,
- prejudice,
- prosecute,
- put down,
- put-down,
- rape,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- raw deal,
- resentment,
- rile,
- rough,
- rough up,
- run,
- savage,
- savagery,
- scathe,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scurrility,
- shock,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- slight,
- slip,
- spoil,
- sting,
- taint,
- taunt,
- the worst,
- threaten,
- torment,
- tort,
- torture,
- toxin,
- transgression,
- treat with indignity,
- trespass,
- trip,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- venom,
- vex,
- vexation,
- violate,
- violation,
- violence,
- woe,
- wound,
- wrath,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong,
- wrongdoing
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