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well-behaved

adjective as in having good behavior

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“I love animals, always have done, and a long time ago I was a trainee safari guide in Botswana so for me it’s fairly natural. We’re very lucky to have such a well-behaved little lady as Bridget, who comes on in the closing scene.”

From BBC

The roads are clear, fans are well-behaved and, even though a small group of protestors has arrived outside, the atmosphere is one of calm competency.

From BBC

Kara’s colorful shows, often in makeshift tents evocative of a traveling circus, rejected the established theatrical modes then dominating modernizing Japan that were mostly Western, middle class and well-behaved.

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, a Democrat who represents parts of Los Angeles, said he and his fiancée, an attorney, were shut out of renting several places just because of Darius, their well-behaved Great Dane.

It’s simple human nature: If a parent has a well-behaved kid and an unruly kid, the parent naturally over time expects more of the former and lowers the bar for the latter.

From Salon

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

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