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Synonyms for well-behaved

Grammar : Adj

Spell : bih-heyv

Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈheɪv

Définition of well-behaved

Origin : 1590s, from well (adv.) + past participle of behave.

adj having good behavior

Example sentences :

Although hardly sober, this woman was modest and well-behaved.
Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel

She's a bright child, and a well-behaved one, generally speaking.
Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln

I have always regarded you as an orderly and well-behaved boy.
Extract from : « Breaking Away » by Oliver Optic

He is an intelligent and well-behaved man, and has a fair Burmese education.
Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 » by Various

And I am going to let my hair grow long and be well-behaved.
Extract from : « A Little Maid of Old Maine » by Alice Turner Curtis

I always did like characters better than people who were well-behaved.
Extract from : « A Woman's Will » by Anne Warner

The Indians on this reservation are well-behaved, and inclined to be industrious.
Extract from : « The Indian Question (1874) » by Francis A. Walker

If everybody said we were nice, well-behaved women, who'd come to hear us?
Extract from : « The Convert » by Elizabeth Robins

The Parisian is the most orderly and well-behaved of citizens.
Extract from : « The Story of Paris » by Thomas Okey

Louise would be pretty if she were a neat and well-behaved child.
Extract from : « A Little Maid of Ticonderoga » by Alice Turner Curtis

Antonyms for well-behaved

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