ADJECTIVE
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(usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct
a well-behaved child
How To Use well behaved In A Sentence
- … I’m looking for somewhere to add in a bit about the value of assimilation in the context of the quote “well behaved women never make history” and the ways in which being able to be ill-behaved is a privilege in itself but I can’t find one and for some odd reason I never did tag that blog post (if you find it, please link it, it was really good and I miss it). Breaking the cycle of English « Love | Peace | Ohana
- But the Tonys are a well behaved, almost completely non-political, non-controversial affair on camera. Gawker
- The audience was surprisingly well behaved.
- The above trends govern the technology transfer process by making certain types of technologies available to well behaved states.
- Others were, briefly, inattentive, but generally we were well behaved and gave Old Dutch our rapt attention.
- It was also equally nice to have some new faces at the con, and they were all so well behaved so they can attend next year as well.
- He is famously modest and well behaved, especially for an athlete from a country that has made a national virtue out of what is politely called "brashness" -- he claims, in fact, not even to keep track of how many world records he holds. Firing The Thorpedo
- Before the coming of TV the kids were found to be hard working and very well behaved.
- I am now a well behaved individual, I have cut down on my quixotic outings, though the prospect of getting fatally maimed on one of those windmills is always enticing.
- He's been very well behaved with us and we've hardly heard a serious word from him.