misbehaving

Example Sentences

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Punishing a dog for misbehaving when traveling may only result in the dog having negative associations with road trips.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

"It can come across as acting out or misbehaving, but it isn't acting out or misbehaving. It's just literally not feeling safe in their own body."

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

The organized bar should address judicial referrals of misbehaving government lawyers without hesitation and, when merited, with stringent punishment.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

Lim envisions a future in which organ transplant patients, or those with autoimmune diseases, receive therapies that only treat the specific regions of the body where the immune system is misbehaving.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

As little girls, my sisters and I asked about ours, after being read stories full of mothers and fathers and their misbehaving children.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton