misbehave
verb (used without object)
to behave badly or improperly.
was misbehaving
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past progressiveof misbehave.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Martinez suggested the child was misbehaving on the float and might have tipped over the float if she and the other women on the float didn’t step in to “parent this kid.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Hendon said parents would sometimes ask him to go to their child’s school when they got a call that the youth was misbehaving and they weren’t able to get off work.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2018
And then she’d get upset with my behavior — I was misbehaving for some strange reason — so she started sending me out into the hallway.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2017
I remember one day at school, when I was 12, I was misbehaving, as I usually did on a daily basis.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2014
But each was labouring under a conviction that the other was misbehaving, and with that feeling it was impossible that there should be confidence between them.
From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
