How to use behaviour in a sentence
Of course, I knew that many of them must have two behaviours, and that now they were on their good behaviour.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood | George MacDonaldLet us therefore leave these softe and wanton behaviours to women.
A Renaissance Courtesy-book | Giovanni Della CasaWe must not then, imitate ye common and rude behaviours of Dioneo.
A Renaissance Courtesy-book | Giovanni Della CasaWhose behaviours be full of follies and vaine glorie, which cometh of pride, growing of vanitie it selfe.
A Renaissance Courtesy-book | Giovanni Della CasaThese fonde & foolish behaviours & fashions, paine a man as much to heare them, as to be drawne and haled with cordes.
A Renaissance Courtesy-book | Giovanni Della Casa
British Dictionary definitions for behaviour
US behavior
/ (bɪˈheɪvjə) /
manner of behaving or conducting oneself
on one's best behaviour behaving with careful good manners
psychol
the aggregate of all the responses made by an organism in any situation
a specific response of a certain organism to a specific stimulus or group of stimuli
the action, reaction, or functioning of a system, under normal or specified circumstances
Origin of behaviour
1Derived forms of behaviour
- behavioural or US behavioral, adjective
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