Used in a Sentence

misbehavior

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for misbehavior.

Editorial note

Whether or not there are other underlying issues stemming from such misbehavior is irrelevant to the fact that the misbehavior exists.

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Quick take

(American spelling) Action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of misbehavior gathered in one view.

noun

(American spelling) Action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for misbehavior.

noun

(American spelling) Action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.

Example sentences

1

Whether or not there are other underlying issues stemming from such misbehavior is irrelevant to the fact that the misbehavior exists.

2

That means the compiler can assume it never happens and optimize your code accordingly, which can lead to all sorts of entertaining misbehavior.

3

The solution is to aggressively and systematically break the blue code of silence by offering massive incentives for cops to rat out their fellow officers for misbehavior.

4

We have an ancient and rarely broken tradition of ruining people by accusing them of sexual misbehavior.

5

There was a clearly implicit accusation of some sort of misbehavior on the part of Canonical.

6

All kinds of people (content oligopolies, politicians, etc.) are unhappy that your modem is currently incapable of ratting out your misbehavior.

7

Here's [2] research that suggests that socioeconomic status mitigates the correlation between testosterone and misbehavior.

8

In other words, changes in the media type can be accomplished without causing crashes or misbehavior in existing client or server implementations.

9

With respect - I don't know why people always say this when government misbehavior comes to light.

10

Is there something about their reputation (grueling interview process, salary reputation, ethical misbehavior, etc.) that is causing the good developers to not even apply?

11

Is locking people in cages really necessary to stop bank misbehavior though?

12

At a minimum, this suggests that we have a chicken-egg dilemma between testosterone and misbehavior.

Quote examples

1

No need to call every social misbehavior "SJW".

2

To them, mainstream misogyny's superficial coddling and infantilization of women (and the female misbehavior-- flakiness, bad taste in men, disloyalty-- that results from it) is somehow lumped in with this "feminism" thing that they don't really understand but reflexively hate.

3

It's like if I murdered someone and then got away by saying "I apologize for the misbehavior of my murderous personality - I will not be doing business with it in the future." Doesn't work that way.

4

Well here's an explicit accusation of misbehavior to sate your hunger: Canonical has deliberately gone out of its way to stomp on its users, taking advantage of Ubuntu's once-upon-a-time reputation as being "community-driven" to prey upon and exploit that community for failed commercial gain.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use misbehavior in a sentence?

Whether or not there are other underlying issues stemming from such misbehavior is irrelevant to the fact that the misbehavior exists.

What does misbehavior mean?

(American spelling) Action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.

What part of speech is misbehavior?

misbehavior is commonly used as noun.