well-behaved

Example Sentences

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If parents only left money to well-behaved adult children with a pristine record of good manners and fiscal responsibility, most pet shelters would probably never have to raise funds again.

From MarketWatch

It sounds like something out of a Trollope novel—a well-behaved boy lapping up statecraft over dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal

She was a lovable child, always smiling and well-behaved, said Denes.

From Los Angeles Times

At first his projects were fairly well-behaved and faithful, at least outwardly, to the Modernist principles he had learned at USC: flat roofs, restrained geometry.

From Los Angeles Times

"If you have an animal that lives close to humans, you have to be well-behaved enough," Lesch said.

From BBC