misbehave

Some blame the rising price of tickets, saying theatergoers feel entitled to misbehave in the same way sports fans feel the price of admission buys them the right to heckle players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The saga began in 2021, when WP lawmaker Raeesah Khan claimed in parliament that she had witnessed police misbehave towards a sexual assault victim.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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

Even amoral or timorous lawyers will hesitate to misbehave if it becomes clear that doing so endangers their livelihood.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025

I think about how Oriana was afraid that Taryn or I would misbehave at the Court and cause Madoc embarrassment.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

If an athlete misbehaves, they do not give the entire football team the heave-ho.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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

And if he does attend this reunion, you will have lots of support — and many witnesses — if he misbehaves.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2023

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

When a man misbehaves, the effect is curious on a girl who loves him sincerely.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

The Mogwai and his misbehaved progeny debuted in the 1984 holiday classic “Gremlins” and returned in the 1990 follow-up, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

She says if a child misbehaved or a class got too hectic, it was often her daughter who was told to leave the room because she could not cope in the situation.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

The latest developments in the ongoing tribal dispute come on the heels of the backlash Noem faced for writing about killing a hunting dog that misbehaved in her latest book.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 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

It wasn’t that when Mami was gone we misbehaved more.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

In the blog, OpenAI detailed examples of its AI models misbehaving so they could achieve a task or succeed in a test.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

Once I was taking the kids to SeaWorld and they were misbehaving in the car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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

John J. Dilulio Jr., a political scientist who was then at Princeton, argued that we were seeing a new kind of juvenile criminal, utterly unlike the misbehaving teens of the past.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater