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behaving
verb as in act reasonably, properly
Strongest match
Weak matches
- act correctly
- act one's age
- act with decorum
- be civil
- be good
- be nice
- be on best behavior
- be orderly
- comport oneself
- conduct oneself properly
- demean oneself
- deport oneself
- discipline oneself
- keep one's nose clean
- keep the peace
- live up to
- manage oneself
- mind one's manners
- mind one's p's and q's
- observe golden rule
- observe the law
- play fair
- shape up
- toe the mark
- watch one's step
Example Sentences
I would enslave them even more and liberate men so they would start behaving like men again.
To them, Her Imperial Majesty and Queen Empress was behaving in a manner unbecoming.
And adults, their parents, are dressing and behaving younger.
That this all takes place in the West Wing makes the way these people are behaving seem far removed from us and our own impulses.
I feel very angry and quite bitter about the way the church is behaving.
He sat down again, ashamed, mortified, angry with himself for behaving like a fool and a boy.
His mother was soon able to report to Fanny that Pierre is behaving better and learns willingly with his new teacher.
He felt that he was not behaving as he should do, to Ruth, though the really right never entered his head.
Mr. Rundell found him swearing and raving in a great passion, sacking men and behaving like a maniac.
Nina, he seemed secretly to intimate, was behaving in a manner likely to give rise to that suspicion.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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