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- verb Present participle of
misbehave .
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Examples
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Going inside an Islamic place of worship and misbehaving is one thing.
Muslim Reactions Misinterpreted JDsg 2006
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I call a misbehaving young woman, and the hold of the whole family on me is so much weakened by her late conduct, that it wouldn't take a speech as long as the ten commandments to send me off to the river, leaving you and your traps, your Ark and your children, your man servants and your maid servants, your oxen and your asses, to fight this battle with the
The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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This is growing epidemic in America, one where we increasingly label misbehaving children as "mentally ill," and then seek to
World of Psychology 2008
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Why are so many reluctant ot simply call behavior “wrong” and call the misbehaving individuals to task?
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I was "spanked" every time I even thought about misbehaving, which is why I was determined not to raise my kids that way.
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Concentrating heavily on academics at the expense of social skills, streaming students, failing to give them a sense of achievement, labelling misbehaving students, transferring responsibility for discipline to outside agencies, an authoritarian school environment with a high degree of corporal punishment, failing to give students opportunities to participate in all activities regardless of their background and ignoring bullying.
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The staff were clucking and telling her she was "misbehaving", as if she was a toddler.
Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal Johann Hari 2011
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Currently, ICANN's control of the DNS allows them to easily shut down "misbehaving" domains.
Pirate Bay, Others Fight Back With Plan To Stop Website Seizures The Huffington Post 2010
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Currently, ICANN's control of the DNS allows them to easily shut down "misbehaving" domains.
Pirate Bay, Others Fight Back With Plan To Stop Website Seizures The Huffington Post 2010
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To put this "misbehaving" into context, we're currently at 380ppm and by the time it gets to 450ppm, the average global temperature will rise by 4 degrees -- causing mass extinctions, hunger riots, and surging sea-levels across the globe.
GHibbs commented on the word misbehaving
My adjectival use: 'Send the misbehaving children to the head teacher.'
August 23, 2011