Bad treatment
The crossword clue "Bad treatment" is answered by ABUSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ABUSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ABUSE answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ILLUSAGE (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for ABUSE
Every other clue in this collection answered by ABUSE, most used first.
- Mistreat - used 71 times, most recently in 2025
- Mistreatment - used 39 times, most recently in 2025
- Treat badly - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Maltreat - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
- Treat poorly - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Maltreatment - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Obloquy - used 13 times, most recently in 2005
- Treat like dirt - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
- It voids warranties - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Take unfair advantage of - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Ill treatment - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Ill-treat - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Vituperation - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Invective - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Revile - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
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- Bad lighting? - ARSON, used 60 times
- Bad habits - VICES, used 46 times
- "My bad" - SORRY, used 40 times
- "Bad, Bad ___ Brown" - LEROY, used 37 times
- Parkinson's treatment - LDOPA, used 32 times
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