ADJECTIVE
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(usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct
a well-behaved child
How To Use well-behaved In A Sentence
- The well-behaved children sat on the floor, which when it rained, became muddy.
- I want my email program to be well-behaved, and reasonably secure from the outset.
- Scorsese reinforces the point by juxtaposing images of his own mother preparing food for prim and well-behaved children with the nudie pin-ups that adorn the walls at the hang-out of J.R. and his pals.
- We live in a nice, quiet suburban galaxy, with a well-behaved black hole at the center.
- Chapman couldn't help but notice that the brothers were remarkably well-behaved, contrary to their reputation for being rock 'n' roll hellraisers.
- I do not accept that our well-behaved boys should be made to pay for a poorly behaved kid.
- Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us.
- It was a well-behaved match with very few fouls.
- The result, according to the trainer, is a “well-behaved and well-balanced dog.” Have We Gone "Alpha" Overboard?
- I was a cadet officer in those times - and I was a well-behaved one, before he tells me anything different - and one of the junior engineers got tanked up on a Greek plane with a Greek captain in charge.