What's the difference between behaved and miscreant?

Behaved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Behave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (2) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (3) It behaves as an acidic protein, pI 4.5--5.0, which is thermolabile and sulphydryl-sensitive.
  • (4) However, I’m behaving as if it’s all going to happen as planned.” It has certainly been a long road to production.
  • (5) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
  • (6) The analyzed tRNA gene behaved like a single transcription unit driven by its own promoter.
  • (7) These results favour the idea that the factor present in peak II fraction might behave as an ouabain-like substance.
  • (8) Proud of the way his forces behaved, he plans to frame the operational map of the night for his office wall.
  • (9) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
  • (10) I wanted to investigate how people behave together."
  • (11) The reference material, which must behave immunochemically the same as the patient's sample in all methods, is then used to assign a target value to the calibrator in each method and system.
  • (12) The relative permittivity and conductivity of rabbit eye lens were measured in the frequency domain between 2 and 18 GHz at temperatures of 37 and 20 degrees C. An analysis of the data suggested that a significant proportion of the bulk water in nuclear and cortical lens tissue may behave differently to pure water.
  • (13) Hypersensitivity was observed up to 7 min after the injection, after which the mice behaved normally.
  • (14) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
  • (15) Population studies of continuously cultured primary amnion cells from appropriate donors and of HeLa cells have established that the H- cell behaves as a stem cell which commonly divides into a like cell and a differentiated H+ type.
  • (16) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
  • (17) Systemically administered CPP blocked AGS and significantly reduced IC neuronal firing in the behaving GEPR, suggesting an important action of systemically administered NMDA receptor antagonists on brainstem auditory nuclei critical to AGS.
  • (18) This polypeptide behaved identically to skeletal muscle actin on DNaseI affinity columns.
  • (19) Under these assumptions, any time-invariant variable may behave like a metabolite concentration, i.e.
  • (20) Should Britain start behaving like the small island state it is rather than maintaining the pretensions of being a significant world player?

Miscreant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
  • (n.) One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.
  • (a.) Holding a false religious faith.
  • (a.) Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
  • (2) The wretched miscreants that swamp Quinn, Sarkeesian and others with vile threats every time they post a video, a story or a tweet, have come to symbolise community.
  • (3) The theory was that cracking down on petty crimes would discourage miscreants from committing bigger ones.
  • (4) As for the bravado-filled email exchanges between traders, they seem on a par: Barclays' miscreants dealt in bottles of Bollinger; the taste at RBS was for steak and sushi.
  • (5) Corcoran grinned and cycled off, resuming the hunt for miscreants.
  • (6) "It seems that innocent civilians are once again are at the mercy of miscreants."
  • (7) Take the "human flesh search engines" – internet users who band together to track down and expose miscreants, such as abusive officials.
  • (8) It could simply withhold government work from any miscreant banks (or other businesses).
  • (9) "The technical trail is indelible – it has the fingerprints of the miscreant all over it.
  • (10) Miscreants stopped the bus, broke the windows and … then hurled petrol bombs,” said Karmokar, 22, who was being treated for burns to his face and hands at Dhaka medical hospital.
  • (11) Bluebaby: - "Can I just say that if anyone near me starts playing a vuevuezela at Stamford Bridge next season, I shall take it off them, upend it to use as a an enema funnel and administer a dose of hot Bovril to the miscreant."
  • (12) The move provoked a cacophony of calls for honours to be stripped from other miscreant bankers, politicians and regulators.
  • (13) Official rhetoric is sectarian and blames foreign and Islamist armed miscreants for the violence.
  • (14) They would entail inspection rights, demands for firmer data on rate-setting practices, rather than the widespread use of estimates, and powers to fine miscreants.
  • (15) The US actor is also expected to reprise her role as musician Dana Barrett in a forthcoming third Ghostbusters movie in which her on-screen son will battle the series' trademark spooky miscreants.
  • (16) In "Left Foot Forward", his "political blog for progressives", Master Straw boldly misrepresents one of the miscreant's pieces, in order to attract new signatories to the "stop Liddle" campaign and thus protect our wives and servants.
  • (17) He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called “parallel state” supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud .
  • (18) Particularly as the parade of miscreants through US courts, and new revelations, continue.
  • (19) The local press blamed the fires on “miscreants” from nearby communities.
  • (20) While these two miscreants obviously are guilty of losing control – banged to rights on video – one or two of those who live alongside them and make a good living with them might like to ask themselves when they forgot their manners, when they strayed into the Land Of No Consequences.

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