well-behaved
Example Sentences
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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
She was a lovable child, always smiling and well-behaved, said Denes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
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
This does not mean that the political history of the early republic can be understood as a polite forensic exercise conducted by a marvelously well-behaved collection of demigods.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
