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ill-behaved
adjective as in bad
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in ill-mannered
adjective as in mischievous
Weak matches
- arch
- artful
- bad
- bothersome
- damaging
- dangerous
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- evil
- exasperating
- foxy
- frolicsome
- harmful
- hazardous
- hurtful
- ill
- injurious
- insidious
- irksome
- malignant
- misbehaving
- perilous
- pernicious
- precarious
- puckish
- rascal
- rascally
- risky
- sinful
- spiteful
- sportive
- teasing
- tricky
- troublesome
- vexatious
- vexing
- vicious
- wayward
Example Sentences
Felicia became noisy, turbulent, ill-behaved, but without being touched by all that passed over her little soul so near to earth.
What a pity that such an aunt must know that she was an ill-behaved child, a misfortune to her lineage!
Away with this ill-behaved, shameless deserter of his wife, and away with her too!
The Neapolitans appeared to me very ill-behaved, boisterous, and quarrelsome, and seemed to entertain a great horror of work.
Leaving science to unravel this problem, it may be said of the dingo that he is a good-looking but an ill-behaved animal.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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