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- verb Present participle of
behave .
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Examples
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"I don't know what you call behaving badly," said Miss Garthorne in an offended way.
The Secret Passage Fergus Hume 1895
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Last summer the President made an unforced error, attacking the Cambridge police Department for what he characterized as behaving stupidly in arresting Harvard Professor Gates.
American Thinker 2010
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Korea which it describes as behaving like a "spoiled child".
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Korea which it describes as behaving like a "spoiled child".
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The way these guys are behaving is beyond disgusting.
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The real problem of course, is that in behaving like this, the cops are ultimately destroying the trust of the public they are supposed to serve.
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After all, should the Karzai government begin behaving like the Taliban on top of the endemic corruption, they should be removed just like the Taliban.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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She's behaving, in other words -- though it's strangely reassuring -- like a man.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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She's behaving, in other words -- though it's strangely reassuring -- like a man.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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She's behaving, in other words -- though it's strangely reassuring -- like a man.
Christina Patterson: Why Is Madonna A 'Hopeless Romantic'? Christina Patterson 2012
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