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misbehave

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If a student’s grades slip or they misbehave, they can lose tens of thousands of dollars of their scholarship.

As anyone over the age of, say, 8 should know, other children misbehaving doesn’t give you the green light to misbehave yourself.

So next time your child misbehaves, think of Elizabeth Tegumiar and simply walk away.

From Time

If Facebook misbehaved, the trust would retract the company’s access to its members’ data.

In the case of GameStop, both the cynics and sentimentalists have been misbehaving.

From Fortune

The discussion of race in the league just serves to distract from why players misbehave.

He is, you sense, trying not to misbehave, while remaining human and not becoming a Royal cyborg.

And yet it is the privilege of the prince and the sultan to misbehave.

A boy might be excused for that so long as he didn't misbehave.

To allow the child to misbehave without instantly making it unpleasantly conscious of the fact would be to spoil it.

But my dear, you don't meant to say that all bachelor clergymen misbehave themselves.

But if servants misbehave themselves, or leave their places, not being regularly discharged, they ought to be amerced or punished.

If he does not misbehave and keeps out of a lawsuit, he rarely comes in contact with his rulers.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to misbehave, such as: act up, fool around, trespass, deviate, fail, and misconduct.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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