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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misbehavior

Misbehavior \Mis`be*hav"ior\, n. Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misbehavior

also misbehaviour, late 15c., from mis- (1) + behavior.

Wiktionary
misbehavior

alt. (label en American spelling) action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected. n. (label en American spelling) action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.

WordNet
misbehavior

n. improper or wicked or immoral behavior [syn: misbehaviour, misdeed]

Usage examples of "misbehavior".

You must forgive me, Rusty, a moment of philosophy, but not 0 human misbehavior is the result of gross defects of character.

I saw the torment and the need, the random and passionate anger that brings such varied and horrible misbehavior to our own streets.

The kids had no one to play with, and as the weeks passed, their misbehavior escalated.

Bethamin, tall and as dark as Tuon in an Ebou Dari dress with a very deep neckline and skirts sewn up above her knee on one side to show faded red petticoats, seemed a mother waiting for inevitable misbehavior by children, while yellow-haired Seta, in high-necked gray wool that covered her completely, appeared to be studying dangerous dogs that would need to be caged sooner or later.

In some cases the misbehavior at the Palace will be similar to other online groups, in some cases different.

King Verence was a kindly, good-hearted man, but what misbehavior he did not himself witness he seemed to take no interest in.

Is everyone afraid there is some sneaky gene for sexual misbehavior lurking around?

I can make a shrewd guess that the fact that his fiancee lives in Vienna has contributed to the misbehavior of his engine, as because my operations officer, Pilot Officer Weisbach, is travelling in his aircraft.

Khaavorn, who was looking with disdain at this misbehavior by the rabble.

He was the only inmate who was not a Japanese citizen, the only one who had never been sentenced, and the only one being held in solitary confinement with no record of misbehavior in prison.

Regardless of his recent misbehavior, she loved this one more than her life.

It was only much later that the law came down to earth and bold spirits stated that misbehavior displeases humanity.

Although she was by birth an Alardyce, and Aunt Celia a Hilbery, the complexities of the family relationship were such that each was at once first and second cousin to the other, and thus aunt and cousin to the culprit Cyril, so that his misbehavior was almost as much Cousin Caroline’.

He would, however, keep a hawk's eye on Serena Burns, and at the merest hint of misbehavior he would demand her resignation.

All his life, he'd heard people say spacers were different or strange, usually meaning it came in the blood and it accounted for his misbehaviors or his quirks.