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MISBEHAVED

Definitions: MISBEHAVED

MISBEHAVED

Adjective

1. Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Misbehave

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MISBEHAVED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Crosswords: MISBEHAVED

English words defined with "MISBEHAVED": misbehave, misconduct, misdemean. (references)
Etymologies containing "MISBEHAVED": misbehave. (references)

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Usage Frequency: MISBEHAVED

"MISBEHAVED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 56.52% of the time. "MISBEHAVED" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)56.52%1397,576
Lexical Verb (past participle)43.48%10111,207
                    Total100.00%23N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MISBEHAVED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

application by cgi complete header misbehaved not returning set specified

4

application cgi misbehaved

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: MISBEHAVED

Language Translations for "MISBEHAVED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

schlecht benommen, benahm sich schlecht. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άτακτος (desultory, disorderly, naughty). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isbehavedmay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "MISBEHAVED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "MISBEHAVED" (pronounced mi'sbuhā"vd or mi'sbēhā"vd)
6-b u h ā" v dbehaved.
3-ā" v dbraved, caved, craved, depraved, engraved, enslaved, paved, raved, saved, shaved, staved, waived, waved.
4-h ā" v dbehaved.
3-ā" v dbraved, caved, craved, depraved, engraved, enslaved, paved, raved, saved, shaved, staved, waived, waved.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: MISBEHAVED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-h-i-m-s-v"

-1 letter: misbehave.

-2 letters: adhesive, beshamed.

-3 letters: advisee, beamish, behaved, behaves, beheads, beshame, heavies, sheaved.

-4 letters: abides, adeems, advise, amides, bashed, beamed, bedims, behave, behead, beside, bevies, biased, bimahs, davies, deaves, debase, demies, demise, devise, edemas, embeds, evades, heaved, heaves, imbeds, mashed, mashie, mavies, mediae, medias, meshed, seabed, seamed, shamed, shaved, shavie, sheave, sieved, visaed, viseed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MISBEHAVED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 53 42 45 48 41 56 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    ...    -...    .    ....    .-    ...-    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01010011 01000010 01000101 01001000 01000001 01010110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#83 &#66 &#69 &#72 &#65 &#86 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 0053 0042 0045 0048 0041 0056 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47435336394235563938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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