Thesaurus / misbehaving
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synonyms for misbehaving
- delicate
- devilish
- disobedient
- elfish
- frolicsome
- impish
- little
- minute
- naughty
- petite
- playful
- prankish
- puckish
- puny
- rascally
- slight
- sprightly
- tiny
- aberrant
- erratic
- offending
- stray
- unorthodox
- wayward
- deviating
- devious
- drifting
- errable
- erring
- fallible
- heretic
- meandering
- mischievous
- miscreant
- naughty
- off straight and narrow
- rambling
- ranging
- roaming
- roving
- shifting
- sinning
- straying
- unreliable
- wandering
- impish
- malicious
- naughty
- playful
- rude
- sly
- arch
- artful
- bad
- bothersome
- damaging
- dangerous
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- dickens
- evil
- exasperating
- foxy
- frolicsome
- harmful
- hazardous
- holy terror
- hurtful
- ill
- ill-behaved
- injurious
- insidious
- irksome
- malignant
- nocuous
- perilous
- pernicious
- precarious
- puckish
- rascal
- rascally
- risky
- sinful
- spiteful
- sportive
- teasing
- tricky
- troublesome
- vexatious
- vexing
- vicious
- wayward
antonyms for misbehaving
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How to use misbehaving in a sentence
To that end, lunar users would be well advised to build shared installations, such as landing and supply facilities, to function as carrots that can be withheld from misbehaving actors.
LUNAR GOLD RUSH COULD CREATE CONFLICT ON THE GROUND IF WE DON’T ACT NOW—NEW RESEARCHTONY MILLIGANDECEMBER 10, 2020SINGULARITY HUB There was a period in the Obama administration when China would misbehave, they’d break a rule, they’d be too aggressive in an action.
WILL COVID-19 SPARK A COLD WAR (OR WORSE) WITH CHINA? (EP. 414)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAPRIL 23, 2020FREAKONOMICSTherefore, there is every excuse for a well-designed and properly brought-up carburetor misbehaving itself in an aeroplane.
AVIATION ENGINESVICTOR WILFRED PAGHe had feared something worse, but he would almost rather hear of Barbara's misbehaving herself than not hear of her at all.
LADY LILITHSTEPHEN MCKENNAHe can't brush his hair, or tie his cravat, or settle his pantaloons, without misbehaving himself.
THE LANDLEAGUERSANTHONY TROLLOPEAnd then with all their talking and all their ease who ever hears of their misbehaving?
THE O'CONORS OF CASTLE CONORANTHONY TROLLOPEBut I got to misbehaving, and got discharged from there before I was twenty-one.
STEVE P. HOLCOMBE, THE CONVERTED GAMBLERREV. GROSS ALEXANDERThe large room was very dim—the gasoline was misbehaving—and silent; she shivered with apprehension.
THE CALIFORNIANSGERTRUDE FRANKLIN HORN ATHERTONThere is an insensate wish in the human witness to have nature when she begins misbehaving do her worst.
LONDON FILMSWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSThere can be no question about the punishment cell; no one who feels as well as I do has any excuse for not misbehaving himself.
WITHIN PRISON WALLSTHOMAS MOTT OSBORNEWORDS RELATED TO MISBEHAVING
- arch
- artful
- bad
- bothersome
- damaging
- dangerous
- deleterious
- destructive
- detrimental
- dickens
- evil
- exasperating
- foxy
- frolicsome
- harmful
- hazardous
- holy terror
- hurtful
- ill
- ill-behaved
- impish
- injurious
- insidious
- irksome
- malicious
- malignant
- misbehaving
- naughty
- nocuous
- perilous
- pernicious
- playful
- precarious
- puckish
- rascal
- rascally
- risky
- rude
- sinful
- sly
- spiteful
- sportive
- teasing
- tricky
- troublesome
- vexatious
- vexing
- vicious
- wayward
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