(v. t. & i.) To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Users discover that devices are suddenly answering back or misbehaving before the revelation that a jokey ghost has been placed in the machine.
(2) Quite often they realise that a way to get control in a detention facility is to misbehave.” Adams said youth justice had been moved from “pillar to post” since a 2011 department of corrections review of juvenile justice – of which he was a panel member – particularly with a change of government.
(3) "I have been tapped up three times in the last week by the police who do want to arrest me, they certainly want to interview me under caution, because I said that [illegal reporting techniques were used] in order to investigate corrupt people who got elected on family values and all the while were misbehaving, and using their privacy to misbehave," he said, speaking at a debate about the phone-hacking affair at London's City University .
(4) Unlike Iceland, where the government let misbehaving banks fail and talented kids became less interested in leaping into the cesspool of finance, in New York there has been no public rejection of the culture that led to the financial crisis.
(5) Spam alone occupies seven people full-time, plus the services of two engineers who write code to catch those misbehaving.
(6) Only an EU that can credibly enforce fiscal as well as political and legal standards will survive in the long run – and that credibility will require a realistic scenario for what can happen to misbehaving member states.
(7) On average, the children misbehaved 42% and 32% of the time during the baseline and reinforcement conditions respectively but only 6% of the time during the timeout conditions.
(8) The families believe the police operation to claim supporters had been drunk and misbehaving began even as people were dying.
(9) She thinks black children misbehave because they know that any teacher who disciplines them is accused of racism.
(10) The momcreatures lament, "Old Spice sprayed a man of my son…" As if these parent predators singing off key were not horrific enough, one scary verse verges on the boys will be boys rape culture with the line, "Now we know just who to blame when our sons have fun with women and misbehave…" Ick.
(11) BITS AND BOBS Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has warned that players will not be considered for the World Cup if they are sent off or caught misbehaving in club matches before the end of the season.
(12) They primarily expected themselves to become happy and others generally to misbehave.
(13) "We wanted them to tell the Palestinians to stop misbehaving.
(14) At the same time he is under fire from teaching unions after he unveiled plans for a return to traditional methods of classroom discipline , including ordering misbehaving pupils to pick up litter, weed the school playing field, or write out hundreds of lines.
(15) Crucually, they require that the human drivers of the cars sit in a driver’s seat and be able to take “immediate manual control” of the vehicle if the autonomous driving system disengages or misbehaves.
(16) "Has the statue in your accompanying picture hit on a novel way of ensuring that the much maligned jabulani stops misbehaving in such a dastardly fashion?"
(17) Of the 34% of parents who did not wish to be present, most felt that their children were old enough to receive treatment by themselves (82%), or their presence might cause the child to misbehave (63%).
(18) A patent owner who attempts to enforce a patent may be faced with a challenge that the patentee has misbehaved.
(19) Trouble in Marseille: recalling the 1998 violence as England return at Euro 2016 Read more “English police officers continue to work closely with their French colleagues in Marseilles and will identify supporters who misbehave with a view to seek banning orders on their return to the UK.” A source at the Foreign Office in London said it was aware that one fan was in police custody and another was in hospital.
(20) Whenever prominent South African figures misbehave, Xhosa title-tattle centres on whether they have been circumcised.
Misbehavior
Definition:
(n.) Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
Example Sentences:
(1) As an extension of Patterson's family coercion model, we hypothesized that parental attributions about the causes of child misbehavior and parental expectancies concerning the effectiveness of parenting techniques are involved in the establishment and maintenance of coercive exchanges.
(2) Parents and teachers are likely to mistake these children's symptoms for willful misbehavior or lack of motivation, which leads to misunderstandings and even mistreatment.
(3) Compared with the control group, significant reductions in negative school behavior as well as greater increases in academic achievement were obtained for the treatment group, thus supporting the efficacy of contingency management for adolescents school misbehavior.
(4) A proactive style of preempting opportunities for misbehavior, in contrast to a reactive style of responding only after misbehavior occurred, was correlated with a lower incidence of undesirable child acts.
(5) The results indicate that the manner in which reprimands are delivered is critical in influencing children's misbehavior, but the role of nurturance during disciplinary situations is less clear.
(6) Additionally, the findings also associated increasing stress on the part of parents with parental perceptions of burgeoning misbehavior on the part of the child.
(7) Our screen for mutations with mitotic effects was based upon the reasoning that under semirestrictive conditions such mutations could cause an elevated frequency of mitotic chromosome misbehavior and that such events would be detectable with somatic cell genetic techniques.
(8) These constructs are woven into a working schema to differentiate intentional misbehavior in terms of whether it is reactive or proactive.
(9) The results were taken as support of the previous findings that on the day of the full moon there were significantly more misbehaviors than on any other day of the lunar period.
(10) When timeout was added, a child's ribbon was removed for any instance of misbehavior and teacher attention and participation in activities ceased for three minutes or until the misbehavior stopped.
(11) Rates were found to be higher in wards where child neglect and misbehavior were more common.
(12) The most common games involved medication, attendance and punctuality, and misbehavior.
(13) Facial drawings of 2- or 4-yr.-old boys or girls differing in attractiveness were attached to an episode which depicted a mild misbehavior.
(14) The feeling of misbehavior occurs with delay and then again can serve as a stimulus for more tension.--Basing on this model behavior therapeutical techniques for breaking up this vicious circle are discussed.
(15) It was found that teacher satisfaction was influenced not only by factors normally associated with teaching, but also by perceptions of and experiences with youthful misbehavior at school.
(16) Such misbehavior paired with the finding that these children often do need restorative and surgical care may present challenges in patient management.
(17) The data are discussed in terms of control of behavior by stimulus-stimulus, response-stimulus, and stimulus-response associations, and the results are related to behavioral contrast, to flavor-outcome associations, and to "misbehavior" produced by Pavlovian-instrumental interactions.
(18) Not surprisingly, there is also a decrease in intrinsic motivation and an increase in school misbehavior associated with this transition, and these changes are most apparent among adolescents who report regressive changes in the characteristics of classroom and school social environment.
(19) Conditional logistic regression models were used to estimate the degree of association between early misbehavior and i.v.
(20) The latter finding was discussed in light of other evidence that people react negatively to the disconfirmation of their benign expectations regarding babyfaced individuals, and that parents perceived the misbehaviors as more unexpected for 11 year olds than 4 year olds.