Word Meanings - MISBEHAVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. "A misbehaved and sullen wench." Shak.

Related words: (words related to MISBEHAVED)

• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• WENCHLESS
  Being without a wench. Shak.
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• BEHAVIOR
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. A gentleman that is very singular
• WENCH
  weak, tottering; cf. AS. wencle a maid, a daughter, wencel a pupil, orphan, wincel, winclu, children, offspring, wencel weak, wancol 1. A young woman; a girl; a maiden. Shak. Lord and lady, groom and wench. Chaucer. That they may send again My
• WENCHER
  One who wenches; a lewd man.
• GUILTY
  1. Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered
• SULLEN
  French fr. LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. Wyclif . 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak. 3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. Such sullen planets
• MISBEHAVED
  Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. "A misbehaved and sullen wench." Shak.
• GUILTYLIKE
  Guiltily. Shak.
• INGUILTY
  Not guilty. Bp. Hall.
• BLOODGUILTY
  Guilty of murder or bloodshed. "A bloodguilty life." Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness (, n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.