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alt. 1 Improper, immoral behavior 2 Irritating or self-indulgent behavior n. 1 Improper, immoral behavior 2 Irritating or self-indulgent behavior
Usage examples of "carrying-on".
New Mexico, where he had been corrupted by the Penitente movement, that strange, John-the-Baptist-type of desert fanaticism in which devout members pierced their backs with cactus thorns to display their penitence, and when he sponsored such carryings-on, the respectable Christians of northern Colorado made it clear that they would not tolerate such behavior.
There were such splashing and carryings-on that the communal bathing deteriorated into a sporting event.
Not after your carryings-on with the fat cow on Botany Bay, to say nothing of that scrawny bitch of a paymaster….
She couldn’t afford the carryings-on with Bradley to come out if she wanted to win it.
For all his carryings-on he’s not one to cut his stick when my lord’s in trouble, which I’m much afraid he may be!
The carryings-on of the denizens of a faraway castle were no business of mine.
I looked like Mother Goodwill's older brotheras ill-tempered an old duffer as ever gnashed his gums at the carryings-on of the younger generation.