Definitions
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- noun The way a living creature
behaves oracts . - noun The way a device or system operates.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- noun (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
- noun (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
- noun manner of acting or controlling yourself
Etymologies
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Examples
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Firstly they are being asked to lie by saying that they have arrived when they havent-this forms a discipline offence and anyone who encourages this behaviour is also liable to discipline
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They have no insight that their behaviour is actually problematic.
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Thinking about how one's children/grandchildren would think about his or her behaviour is an excellent filter for how we should act (though, not the ONLY one people should rely on, imo).
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If her behaviour is any indication of the type of president she could have been then case closed - Hillary you never had a chance.
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This behaviour is the act of an insecure idiot who can only feel good about himself by knocking people down.
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This behaviour is there at the outset too, it's not as if we see it growing and have some reference of caring to point back to in them.
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Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same things, feel the same threat, then their behaviour is already captive – you have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder.
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If she wishes to repeatedly use disparaging terminology, repeatedly suggest ideological blindness, and ideologically driven attempts to control information then I will inform her that her behaviour is the exact opposite of what this list requires of guests.
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Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same things, feel the same threat, then their behaviour is already captive – you have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder.
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In its weekly Internet newsletter on Friday, the ANC once again released a statement, first issued earlier this week, in which it labelled her behaviour as "regrettable".
sakhalinskii commented on the word behaviour
“This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night to day, thou canst not then be false to any man.�? - Shakespeare
July 30, 2008