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

When government lawyers misbehave, federal judges must be more assertive in the exercise of their powers as members of the judicial branch and as integral players in disciplinary mechanisms of the legal profession.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025

The more I think about it, an embargo sounds an awful lot like the punishment chair at home whenever we misbehave.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

BB14’s collar shows she has returned to Topanga, where a possible third relocation awaits if she misbehaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

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

In addition to lights, you can even set one up to do something handy like remotely power-cycling your home router when it inevitably misbehaves — even without having to get up from the couch.

From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2022

See, safe thro' shoal and rock, How they follow in a flock, Not a ship that misbehaves, not a keel that grates the ground, Not a spar that comes to grief!

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell

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

In 1934, Alcatraz opened as an official federal prison for men who had made escape attempts from other federal prisons, or otherwise misbehaved.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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

For three days straight, every time I or another boy misbehaved, we had to go over there and chop wood.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

The organized bar should address judicial referrals of misbehaving government lawyers without hesitation and, when merited, with stringent punishment.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2025

"I would argue it's not good for anybody's wellbeing to have young people misbehaving and defiant," Mr Ebenezer added.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2025

Lim envisions a future in which organ transplant patients, or those with autoimmune diseases, receive therapies that only treat the specific regions of the body where the immune system is misbehaving.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

But that would have been improper, and I didn’t want to be scolded for misbehaving.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson