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Definition of Misbehaviour
1. Noun. Improper or wicked or immoral behavior.
Generic synonyms: Actus Reus, Misconduct, Wrongdoing, Wrongful Conduct
Specialized synonyms: Delinquency, Juvenile Delinquency, Devilment, Devilry, Deviltry, Mischief, Mischief-making, Mischievousness, Rascality, Roguery, Roguishness, Shenanigan, Ruffianism, Familiarity, Impropriety, Indecorum, Liberty, Abnormality, Irregularity, Impropriety, Indecency, Indiscretion, Peccadillo, Infantilism
Derivative terms: Misbehave
Definition of Misbehaviour
1. Noun. (British) (alternative spelling of misbehavior) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misbehaviour
Literary usage of Misbehaviour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1907)
"18 shows that the fact of inability or of misbehaviour is necessary to give the
Chancellor jurisdiction. The statute gives no power to the Chancellor to ..."
2. Pratt's Law of Highways: (5 & 6 Will. 4, Cap. 50, 25 & 26 Vict. Cap. 61, 27 by Thomas Clement Sneyd Kynnersley, John Tidd Pratt (1865)
"By negligence or wilful misbehaviour, causing any damage to any person, horse,
or cattle, or goods conveyed in any carriage on the highway. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"He punished with death, or ignominy, the misbehaviour of three troops of horse,
who, in a skirmish with the Sureñas, had lost their honour and one of their ..."
4. A Manual of the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance and Contract, Comprising the by Standish Grove Grady, William Hay Macnaghten (1869)
"Husband may divorce Ids wife without misbehaviour—or for misbe- ... —A husband
may divorce his wife without any misbehaviour on her part, ..."
5. A Handbook of the Law of Defamation and Verbal Injury by Frank Towers Cooper (1894)
"... (c) Imputations of general misbehaviour and of social offences — Tendency of
Scots law to allow action for such imputations — Probable ..."
6. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1908)
"The right to kill, sell, or pawn offspring may be allowed only under circumstances
of filial misbehaviour, or of poverty or indebtedness on ..."
7. The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in Personal by William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, Asa Israel Fish, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1856)
"... 906. admitting or refusing evidence, contrary to law, 599, 600, 907, 8.
error or mistake of jury, 908. misbehaviour of jury, id. 909. in penal, hard, ..."
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