Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To behave badly.
- intransitive verb To behave (oneself) in an inappropriate way.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To behave ill; conduct one's self improperly or indecorously.
- To conduct (one's self) ill: with the reflexive pronouns: as, he misbehaved himself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
act orbehave in aninappropriate ,improper ,incorrect , orunexpected manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb behave badly
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Carnival tradition of wearing masks, role reversal, anonymity, and general license to misbehave is still common throughout the Catholic world.
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The Carnival tradition of wearing masks, role reversal, anonymity, and general license to misbehave is still common throughout the Catholic world.
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"If you widen the terms of reference to say conflict diamonds include all governments who misbehave, that is a different process," said Izhakoff.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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Not even Torquemada would have entertained some of the tortures that they want visited on offending players and other fans who "misbehave".
Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna 2011
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Of course this doesn't mean anyone should be allowed to deliberately "misbehave" if his/her general contribution is acknowledged valuable, but it makes a difference whether somebody registers here just to rant and rave, or if it's obvious that the respective "defendant" occasionally "loses patience" in face of blatantly (and obviously purposeful) ignorant "arguments", while he/she generally contributes highly valuable aspects to OpEdNews.
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Annother nice example that the debate is far from over, simply stick to the dogma and pressure those who "misbehave" will not work forever. ...
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Re cultures killing women who "misbehave," that is loathsome, of course, but how is this infecting the West?
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Re cultures killing women who "misbehave," that is loathsome, of course, but how is this infecting the West?
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I don't think that what we as central bankers are doing is a moral hazard in that we are not rescuing specific institutions and therefore not giving stimuli to other institutions to "misbehave" in the future.
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My father didn't allow us to "misbehave" (I realize that is a judgment so I'll acknowledge that it's my definition of misbehaving) in public.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: & you know what... 2005
elfflame commented on the word misbehave
"I aim to misbehave." - Mal, "Serenity"
December 18, 2007