misbehave

He explained that he was concerned that adults would misbehave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

They may even feel emboldened to misbehave again.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

Prodigy City is located in what was formerly Thailand, where the series was filmed, giving every character, human and otherwise, plenty of space to hide and misbehave.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

The Department for Education guidance lists a detention as a "sanction" for pupils who misbehave.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025

Will she kick me out and leave me in the street if I misbehave?

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Forty-seven years later, we see artificial intelligence making such decisions with too little thought from the humans who will likely have to accept the financial fallout if the model misbehaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The act also says anyone who “shamefully casts away his arms, ammunition, tools, or equipment or misbehaves in such manner as to show cowardice in the presence of the enemy” faces the same penalty.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Discipline is about teaching children how to behave, communicate and regulate their emotions, not, for example, losing your temper when a child misbehaves.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022

In addition, he said he wanted to see an end to Section 21 evictions, which occur when a tenant misbehaves or the landlord wishes to stop renting.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2022

See, safe through shoal and rock, How they follow in a flock; Not a ship that misbehaves, not a keel that grates the ground, Not a spar that comes to grief!

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds

In 1934, Alcatraz opened as an official federal prison for men who had made escape attempts from other federal prisons, or otherwise misbehaved.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

In August 2021, Ms Khan - then a lawmaker from the Workers' Party - claimed that she had accompanied a sexual assault victim to the police station and alleged police misbehaved towards the victim.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024

They also said Mr. Crumbley, now 17, had misbehaved in jail, calling “into question whether this defendant can ever be rehabilitated.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023

Fans flooded the field, tore down a goal post, ripped up chunks of turf and misbehaved as if transported to joy long denied.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023

Whatever happened, no matter how much I misbehaved, Grandma always stuck up for me.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

A top lawmaker from Australia's far-right One Nation party has grabbed headlines after exploding at a misbehaving dog as he was grilled on live TV.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

I recently watched a family member gently correct a misbehaving child: “Why are you doing that? Stop. Please stop.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

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

The police have also opened a hotline for people to report "misbehaving monks".

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025

Grown-ups flinch like misbehaving kids, guiltily lapsing into silence.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater