(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.
Mishandle
Definition:
(v. t.) To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(2) The backlash over plans to reconfigure hospitals and primary care in Greater Manchester is a warning of what can go wrong if consultations are mishandled.
(3) Back in Colombia they wonder whether he has been mishandled.
(4) The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will set up panels across England and Wales to assess the complaints, and victims who feel police mishandled their complaints have been urged to come forward and have their cases re-investigated.
(5) It fills me with hope of change.” But, as local historian Eusebio Leal Spengler led the Obamas through the deserted streets, the tour also hinted at the dangers of lopsided tourist development that could leave the stunningly beautiful city centre feeling like a permanent theme park if mishandled.
(6) Field also predicted that Cameron would have to resign soon regardless of the result “given his mishandling of this whole event”.
(7) During questioning, Republican senator John Cornyn suggested the government had mishandled the case.
(8) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur apartment in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
(9) "The Lebanese government is bearing an incomparable burden with the Syrian refugees crossing its borders, but blocking Palestinians from Syria is mishandling the situation," said HRW's deputy Middle East and North Africa director, Joe Stork.
(10) This was not an accidental explosion caused by opposition fighters who mishandled chemical weapons, as claimed by some commentators online.
(11) Here are a list of the agency’s top slip-ups and scandals from FDR to the present: 2011 White House shooting New details emerged recently in the Washington Post that the secret service mishandled the investigation after a man shot at the White House while Obama’s youngest daughter, Sasha, was home.
(12) Müller's shirt was all England will carry away from the whole mishandled adventure, apart from a deep sense of disillusionment which may linger for some time.
(13) In an article for the Financial Times, Cameron said he shared the deep concerns of many people in Britain at the EU's requirement to lift transitional controls on Romanians and Bulgarians in January, and blamed "monumental" mishandling of the issue by the previous Labour government.
(14) 16 shots!” stopped traffic for blocks for up to an hour, expressing their anger over the 20 October 2014 killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald and the subsequent investigation they say was mishandled.
(15) Chinese company secures 99-year lease of Darwin port in $506m deal Read more “And my observation was only, of course, seeking to encourage the circulation of great Australian newspapers, I suggested they should invest in a subscription to the Northern Territory News because it was not a secret.” The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, told reporters Turnbull had mishandled the sensitivities of the port sale with the Americans.
(16) But with the People's Daily writing that progress had only been possible because of David Cameron's admission that he had mishandled Tibet (where, since 2009, 100 monks and nuns have set fire to themselves in protest against Chinese rule), Britain's abasement was complete.
(17) Applied to many cases of anisometropia that are common, the rule leads to extreme overstimates and is grossly misleading, often resulting in the mishandling of patients.
(18) Case-patients who ate crabs were more likely than control subjects who ate crabs to have undercooked and mishandled the crabs after cooking.
(19) His mishandling of the bargain until now leaves deep doubts.
(20) A Guardian project has unearthed hundreds of cases of people alarmed at the mishandling of their data or personal information.