"misbehaving" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: misbehavings [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English misbehaving, equivalent to misbehave + -ing. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|misbehaving}} Middle English misbehaving, {{suffix|en|misbehave|ing}} misbehave + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} misbehaving (countable and uncountable, plural misbehavings)
  1. bad conduct or actions Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-misbehaving-en-noun-L4qFlaNd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Etymology: From misbehave + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|misbehave|ing}} misbehave + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} misbehaving
  1. present participle and gerund of misbehave Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: misbehave
    Sense id: en-misbehaving-en-verb-hsd1jf52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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