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  • noun One who misbehaves.

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Examples

  • But that has always struck me as a weakness of that branch of tort law; the better view, I think, is that an aider to misbehavior should be no more punished than the primary misbehaver himself, absent some special circumstances (e.g., the misbehaver is a child).

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2009

  • But that has always struck me as a weakness of that branch of tort law; the better view, I think, is that an aider to misbehavior should be no more punished than the primary misbehaver himself, absent some special circumstances (e.g., the misbehaver is a child).

    The Volokh Conspiracy 2009

  • They both acted it perfectly: she the ultimate misbehaver; he more vanilla but perfectly willing to follow her down the path to delinquency.

    Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top 6 2008

  • He is very bossy and dominant and I am a misbehaver .. we have brilliantly explosive times, though that has been less since he started taking his meds. (har har) We are settling in like an old married couple these days, but every now and then we go out and do something just freakin crazy and deviant.

    wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2007

  • They still got salary, Yuan got 10,000 a month as major, he was an incorrigible misbehaver, so bad he would jack off publicly, wouldn't let other people wear underpants, once tried to hack Chang with knife.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • With a guard acting as cowboy, shepherd dog, or convict compeller, we shuffled in a continuous line down the iron stairways and across the hall into the dining room, a cement-floored barred-window desert sown with tables in rows, seating eight men each; guards with clubs standing at coigns of vantage or pacing up and down the aisles, and in one window, commanding the whole room, a guard with a loaded rifle, licensed to shoot down any misbehaver.

    The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • Karin was a quiet, shy youngster and Denise was a more difficult younger sister—a loud, rambunctious misbehaver who sought all of her parents’ time and attention.

    The Piano Teacher Robert K. Tanenbaum 1987

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