How to Use misbehave in a Sentence

misbehave

verb
Definition of misbehavenext
Synonyms for misbehavenext
  • If someone in a group of friends misbehaves, the friendship is not good enough.
    — Egor Kirin, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • One reason is that some cat owners do like it when their cats misbehave.
    — Julia Métraux, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The show was geared around portraying her in a positive light and most of the cast knew that their role was to misbehave a little bit, but not too much.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
  • That perhaps the cult of the maestro in some way contributed to their ability to misbehave?
    — Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2021
  • The Ruths, like most Americans at that time, trusted that the school would make a difference for the boy who was misbehaving — or at least keep him off the street.
    — Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Parents, in turn, will be relieved of some of the stress of having a misbehaving child around child-free passengers.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That flight was scuttled by a misbehaving valve on the Atlas V rocket.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • Did Sandoval start a disease that is now infecting all men, leading them to misbehave in ways big and small?
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 26 July 2023
  • And of course, no sooner have Maddie and Percy gotten their hair wet than some misbehaving teens show up and steal their clothes.
    — Vulture, 30 June 2023
  • The teachers at the school also noticed that the lack of fun activities caused children to misbehave.
    — Steve Smith, courant.com, 10 June 2021
  • As long as new products are launched, and celebrities and politicians misbehave, the industry will live on—albeit in new forms.
    — Nancy A Shenker, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But for people with other diseases, the reason tau starts to misbehave is still unknown.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But an incentive to misbehave is not the same as proof of misbehavior.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Teachers have come to me if any players are misbehaving.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • When your child misbehaves, teach them what to do instead instead of just giving a consequence.
    — Amy Morin, Parents, 24 July 2024
  • The decision to ban visitors from these blocks comes as the city has dealt with overcrowding and misbehaving tourists, the AP noted.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The question of whether or not muons really are misbehaving remains an open one.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Students who misbehave, like the group of boys who got into a fight at recess, are also sent to Belcastro’s office.
    — Ariel Gilreath, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Students who misbehave, like the group of boys who got into a fight at recess, are also sent to Belcastro’s office.
    — Ariel Gilreath, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • And when large language models do misbehave or go off the rails, nobody can really explain why.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • Trying to rein in her misbehaving kid had been deeply isolating.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • The code, which is voluntary for now, says AI should not discriminate; should not be used in ways that pose safety risks; and that end users can choose to opt out if AI systems misbehave.
    — Will Knight, Wired, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Scott’s history of encouraging fans to misbehave is once again in the spotlight.
    — Erik Larson, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • That has led to complaints that passengers who misbehave on one flight can simply fly on another.
    — Lori Aratani, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The next step will be devising ways to prevent such a system from generating agents that misbehave.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Fussing at animals who misbehave is part of his daily life on a farm in McCalla, about 20 miles southwest of Birmingham.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem faced for writing about killing a hunting dog that misbehaved in her latest book.
    — CBS News, 13 May 2024
  • How will his proposal to put a black mark on the school record of children found to have misbehaved do anything other than bar them from access to higher education?
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 5 May 2024
  • The teacher said some of her own students misbehave whether parents are present or not and sometimes act whinier when parents are present during a virtual lesson.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • After the teen continued to misbehave, the child said Edwards produced a handgun and fired into the front door window, according to the affidavit.
    — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023

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