Misbehave
[mɪsbɪ'heɪv] or [,mɪsbɪ'hev]
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Behave ill.
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Definition
v.i. to behave ill or improperly.—adj. Misbehaved′ (Shak.) badly behaved: ill-bred.—n. Misbehav′iour.
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Examples
- That would leave you time to misbehave, and then if I liked some one else better, I should have an excuse for jilting you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As he got beyond the wisdom of his upbringing he began to blunder and misbehave--sometimes with a dreadful folly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The next day, sensible they had misbehaved in giving us that disturbance, they sent three of their old counsellors to make their apology. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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