(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.
Naughty
Definition:
(superl.) Having little or nothing.
(superl.) Worthless; bad; good for nothing.
(superl.) hence, corrupt; wicked.
(superl.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Karmani described Respect as "the naughty children" of Bradford – "and with parents like that, what do you bloody expect?"
(2) Brand isn’t the messiah (or just a naughty boy, for that matter) and his message pisses off plenty of people.
(3) Funny nice, the kind that comes with a pleasing undercurrent of naughtiness.
(4) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
(5) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
(6) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
(7) Harry describes her as “a total kid through and through”, whose motto was “you can be as naughty as you want, just don’t get caught”.
(8) When Michael is naughty she threatens to hand him over to "the policeman" and she sends grumpy Jane to exile inside a cracked Doulton bowl.
(9) In keeping with her policy of never giving interviews, she was spared a grilling by Naughtie.
(10) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(11) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(12) In the aftermath of the goal, Ameobi must have said something naughty to Dowd, who sends him to the tunnel.
(13) The impending publication of the putative nude pictures, a humiliation that turned out to be a bluff, might have pulled Watson down among the lower orders of former child stars, those people who now exist in the public consciousness merely as cautionary tales to scare naughty teenagers: “Look what happened to Bieber today!”; “Did you see Cyrus in that outfit?” Although Watson has put her head above the parapet before, the provocation cited by the hoaxers was the New York speech she gave last Monday promoting the HeForShe campaign and arguing that gender discrimination harms both men and women.
(14) Quite the reverse: Charlie Hebdo was described decades ago as “ bête et méchant ” – bad and naughty – and has revelled in the description ever since.
(15) Pupils are never naughty, just “unprofessional”; for lateness, lack of homework and classroom disruption, they lose some of the 50 “professionalism points” with which they start each week.
(16) In recent months, he has fallen out with so many first-team players that locals joke about the need for a "naughty step" at the training ground.
(17) It originally quoted Kathryn Bigelow as saying "naughty subjects" rather than "knotty subjects"
(18) Brazil skipper Thiago Silva must sit this one out on the naughty step after picking up a silly booking - his second of the tournament - for obstructing Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina as he attempted to take a kick.
(19) Naughtie, interviewing Gardner, paused and said "that's a fascinating piece of information".
(20) "He went for it," says Beckett with a laugh, sounding less like a record mogul and more like a naughty schoolboy.