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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misbehave
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Kids often misbehave when they are bored or tired.
▪ Larry and Myesha have been misbehaving all day.
▪ We never dared to misbehave in Miss Dill's classes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As soon as the child stops misbehaving the parent can attend to him or her again.
▪ It says a child can not be misbehaving at the same time that he is behaving well.
▪ One child was cuffed for misbehaving at a bus stop.
▪ She went outside to talk to him, threatening all sorts of terrible punishments for anyone who misbehaved in her absence.
▪ The Raiders returned to their old, misbehaving selves, collecting 10 penalties for 90 yards.
▪ When caught misbehaving a true cat pretends he was doing something else.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misbehave

Misbehave \Mis`be*have"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Misbehaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Misbehaving.] To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misbehave

"conduct oneself improperly," late 15c.; see mis- (1) + behave. Related: Misbehaved; misbehaving.

Wiktionary
misbehave

vb. to act or behave in an inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected manner.

WordNet
misbehave

v. behave badly; "The children misbehaved all morning" [syn: misconduct, misdemean] [ant: behave]

Usage examples of "misbehave".

The greater anonymity for guests does seem to result in their misbehaving more often than members.

Waiting for one of us to misbehave so that they could send us to detention.

He wanted to take and hold her, but she had done exactly as she had been told, misbehaved as she said and admitted to it.

But it was in the nature of the business that people got drunk and misbehaved, and already the wallpaper was torn, the curtains stained and the carpet ripped.

I was called formally to his room, and went with some trepidation as I assumed that I must have misbehaved, since he was not a man who gave himself much to his children, being too occupied with more important matters.

Some owners of private sites have strict policies about misbehaving users.

How do you talk to a misbehaving adolescent, or an adult acting like one?

Wizards also can track these registration numbers and addresses, so they know when misbehaving users are coming and going despite their switching usernames and avatars.

When TPI officials tracked down the origin of one group of misbehaving users, they turned out to be several men in the technical department of a rather large company.

Eventually, with their patience tested, wizards may unintentionally bait the gang into misbehaving more blatantly, resulting in a pin, gag, or kill.

Being polite and showing respect for the misbehaving user is a good policy - even when a horrible snert shows none of this in return.

Some misbehaving users are very good at the Eddie Haskel maneuver - i.

Does the information about misbehaving users and their behavior belong to the site owner, and can they do what they please with that information?

Early in the history of the TPI Mansion site, when the population began to boom, misbehaving users became more prolific.

Xenu once suggested an alternative: Dispatch misbehaving snerts to a jump station room where they have 5-10 seconds to select a link to a non-TPI site.