well-behaved

Example Sentences

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The old-school kind where everybody is mostly well-behaved and polite, and the audience scrolls on their phones to stay awake.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

But she says she soon realised that being well-behaved at Skircoat made her a target for Phillips.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 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

It sounds like something out of a Trollope novel—a well-behaved boy lapping up statecraft over dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

“We can do with a few well-behaved fellows like you,” he said to Boxwood.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams