SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesBad and wrong behaviour
act out
angel
ASB
astray
atyourworstidiom
beup to no goodidiom
go off the railsidiom
go round
impossible
in flagrante
incorrigible
raise hellidiom
rakish
rakishly
rakishness
rascally
unworthy
villainy
while the cat's away, the mice will playidiom
worst
See more results ?(Definition ofmisbehaviorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmisbehavior
misbehaviorSo we're not talking about rock starmisbehavior, which men or women can do.FromHuffington PostThat meant that anymisbehaviorhad to be stamped out before the contagion spread.FromThe New YorkerBut now, rather than let disciplinary statistics suffer, criminalizingmisbehavioris routine.FromHuffington PostMisbehaviorbefore the enemy is a very unusual charge.FromNPRIt's hard to expect them to, nor should we, perhaps, be surprised when these expectations of superhuman behavior are replaced instead bymisbehavior.FromGizmodoMuch of themisbehaviorthat's cited in this report and elsewhere predates this administration.FromNPRLogical consequences are directly related to themisbehavior.FromHuffington PostThere are other things that are appropriate for dealing withmisbehavior.FromThe AtlanticAgain, none of the relationships above are intended to showmisbehaviorby those involved.FromWashington PostWhen juvenile defendants live in government-subsidized apartments, their arrests ormisbehaviorcan swallow entire families in eviction proceedings.FromThe AtlanticMore than half of those disciplinary actions stem not from serious offenses such as violence, but frommisbehavioror defiance, the report states.FromSan Francisco ChronicleLoudness, refusal to remain in their seats, or rudeness filled the bill asmisbehavior.FromCNNWhat we can do is, respect the teachers and punish themisbehaviorkids of ours own.FromTIMEThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/misbehavior##
