misbehaving

Example Sentences

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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

"When I was misbehaving at school, teachers threatened to call home and I'd reply, 'Go on then'."

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

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

From Slate • Mar. 17, 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

He gave the younger officer the rueful look of a father exasperated with his misbehaving son.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini