well-behaved
Example Sentences
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The old-school kind where everybody is mostly well-behaved and polite, and the audience scrolls on their phones to stay awake.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
As long as they’re home by curfew, and have been well-behaved that week, the teens are allowed to set their own schedules.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
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 • Feb. 18, 2026
The facility rewards well-behaved prisoners by moving them to live in another level in the prison with "enhanced" privileges.
From BBC • May 14, 2025
“Yes. They thought you were a well-behaved gentleman. I had only dated boys at the church to Sunday school affairs.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
