ill-behaved
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The lawsuit alleged the diabetes-alert dogs, for which Warren charged up to $27,000, “were often poorly trained, ill-behaved, and unequipped to help manage a life-threatening situation, rendering them little more than incredibly expensive pets.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2023
On the heels of scandalous antics by Hollywood’s newly rich and ill-behaved, and to fend off outside regulation, Hays was brought in as the morals cop.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2023
We love dogs, but aside from our finding the reply to be presumptuous, their dog jumps on the furniture and is generally ill-behaved.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021
Timothy may grow out of this, he may be more ill-behaved in unfamiliar places, etc.
From Slate • Mar. 9, 2020
He was a remarkably pretty, engaging, excitable, ill-behaved little specimen of his race, the occasion of infinite anxiety and 281 laughing care to his devoted master and mistress until his death six years later.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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