ill-behaved

• “They are potentially better long-term investments because they are less likely to get caught out, but will be able to capitalize on the those that do, capturing market share, talent, etc. when the ill-behaved are outed (AIG, GM, Madoff, etc.).”

  Marketing

• “How many times have we heard that so and so is a decent guy who made a mistake after the person in question has just shown himself to be crass and ill-behaved jerk?”

  Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say

• “Many complained about people who take untrained, ill-behaved animals to public events as well as about people who chuckle a little embarrassed but nothing more when their dogs lunge at people while on walks or leap up on strangers and do that "if it's vertical I'll try to breed with it" behavior against everyone's legs.”

  USA Today: Pet Talk: Some people hate dogs, in no uncertain terms

• “Christopher Plummer, Lynne Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini are among those who lend voices to this most adult (and often scatological) story of a middle-aged gay man's discovery of the love he spent his life searching for — in the form of an ill-behaved German Shepherd (or Alsation, as they're also known).”

  A Different Stripe:

• “Clothing came in ill-behaved colors; oranges and hot pinks and chartreuses, melting together.”

  Fictionaut: ’

• “In his post, titled "The delusions of wireless Net Neutrality," Ou argues that wireless-broadband services are, in fact, more vulnerable to interference by ill-behaved applications (for example, Netflix streaming and BitTorrent file sharing) and that wireless networks cannot hope to compete with wired ones in terms of capacity or robustness.”

  The Washington Post: The net-neutrality debate continues

• ““Are there any other ill-behaved subatomic particles?””

  Simon & Schuster: Naked Cruelty

• “Like I said, it wasn't that Mason was ill-behaved, but he was the only person there (besides Shawn and I) that was under the age of fifty.”

  Day in the Life of an Idiot

• “In seventh grade, Washington Irving Junior High School accidentally assigned six of the most ill-behaved kids in school to the same class.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons

• “Do you miss your weekly appointment with that ill-behaved doctor, or your visits to Wisteria Lane?”

  Weekend Assignment #196

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