What do you call someone who mistreats others?

bully. noun. someone who uses their influence or status to threaten or frighten someone else in order to get what they want.
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What do you call someone who treats others badly?

oppress. Synonyms:prey on, discriminate, persecute, victimize, mistreat, trample, use, wrong, be rough on someone.
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What is it called when you like degrading others?

a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation. a person who is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed or imposed by others.
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What is cruel person called?

Some common synonyms of cruel are barbarous, ferocious, fierce, and savage.
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What do you call someone who uses someone else?

An exploiter is a user, someone who takes advantage of other people or things for their own gain. Being an exploiter is selfish and unethical. To exploit someone is to use them in a way that's wrong, like an employer who pays low wages but demands long hours. An exploiter is a person who treats others this way.
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What do you call a person who is heartless?

remorseless, ruthless, slash-and-burn, soulless, stony.
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What is the word for someone who talks down to you?

Condescension is rude and patronizing. Treating someone with condescension is the opposite of treating them with respect. Condescension is full of arrogant and snooty attitude, and people who practice condescension treat others like inferior idiots.
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What is the word for making someone feel inferior?

belittle Add to list Share. To belittle means to put down, or to make another person feel as though they aren't important. Saying mean things about another person literally makes them feel "little." To belittle someone is a cruel way of making someone else seem less important than yourself.
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What is another word for rude and disrespectful?

OTHER WORDS FOR disrespectful

impolite, rude, impertinent, irreverent.
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What is a word for unfair treatment?

The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work. exploitation. misuse. manipulation. abuse.
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What do you call someone who has no respect for others?

Definitions of disrespectful. adjective. exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous.
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What to say to someone who disrespects you?

5 Steps for Telling Someone They Hurt or Disrespected You
  • Start with why what you want to say is important. ...
  • Briefly describe what happened that felt hurtful or disrespectful. ...
  • Say how their behavior made you feel—the impact. ...
  • Ask for what you need going forward. ...
  • End by reinforcing why you are making this request.
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What's another word for being nasty?

1 dirty, foul, grimy, begrimed, soiled, tainted. 2 sickening, repulsive, repellent. 4 mean, malicious, malevolent; bitchy, catty, ugly. 6 stormy, inclement.
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What is the word for putting your problems on someone else?

Psychological projection involves projecting undesirable feelings or emotions onto someone else, rather than admitting to or dealing with the unwanted feelings.
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What is condescending attitude?

Definition of condescending

: showing or characterized by a patronizing or superior attitude toward others.
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What is a pretentious person?

adjective. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious. full of pretense or pretension; having no factual basis; false.
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What is the meaning of patronizing someone?

Definition of patronizing

: showing or characterized by a superior attitude towards others : marked by condescension patronizing comments No more endearing is his patronizing jocularity …—
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What does it mean when a person is pedantic?

Pedantic is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.
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What is a malevolent person?

Definition of malevolent

1 : having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred. 2 : productive of harm or evil.
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What is a word for uncaring?

Synonyms & Antonyms of uncaring
  • boorish,
  • heedless,
  • inconsiderate,
  • thoughtless,
  • unfriendly,
  • unloving,
  • unthinking.
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What's the word when you're always cold?

shivery. adjective. if you feel shivery, you are shivering, for example because you are cold or ill.
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What to do when someone keeps disrespecting you?

But remember a few things first.
  1. Take a deep breath. You don't want to go in hot and risk saying something you don't mean, or worse — disrespecting the other person right back.
  2. Remember, you're here for resolution, not revenge.
  3. Decide on your desired outcomes before you start talking. ...
  4. Stay calm.
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What are rude characteristics?

Rudeness, particularly with respect to speech, is necessarily confrontational at its core. Forms of rudeness include acting inconsiderate, insensitive, deliberately offensive, impolite, a faux pas, obscenity, profanity and violating taboos such as deviancy.
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