adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-behaved/badly-behaved
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a badly-behaved class
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Can I bring my dog? She's very well-behaved .
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She was a thoughtful, kind, and well-behaved girl.
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Their children are so well-behaved it seems almost unnatural.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A petty officer, his wife and three incredibly well-behaved children were first.
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An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.
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Flavia responded like a well-behaved little girl.
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His sad, excruciatingly well-behaved adolescence is inextricable from the progress of a doomed friendship with an eccentric schoolmate, Smallgods.
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Most of the 20,000 asteroids in our data banks remain on well-behaved paths, for ever circuiting the sun in the main belt.
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Small towns and highways sit in the distance like the proverbial well-behaved child -- seen, vaguely, but not heard.
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So we were exceedingly well-behaved towards each other.
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The hangar-sized concert room was packed with a well-behaved male dominated audience.