ill-behaved

  • 1ill-behaved — ill behavedˈ adjective Behaving badly, ill mannered • • • Main Entry: ↑ill …

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  • 2ill-behaved — index blatant (obtrusive), disobedient, perverse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 3ill behaved — adjective badly behaved, having bad behaviour That boy is ill behaved, he is always naughty …

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  • 4ill-behaved — /ˈɪl bəheɪvd/ (say il buhhayvd) adjective → badly behaved …

  • 5ill-behaved — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Misbehaving, often in a troublesome way: bad, naughty. See CONTROL, GOOD …

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  • 6ill-mannered — [adj] badly behaved bad mannered, boorish, cheap, churlish, coarse, discourteous, disrespectful, ill behaved, ill bred, impertinent, impolite, insolent, loud, loudmouthed, loutish, raunchy*, raw, rough, roughneck*, rude, tacky*, uncivil, uncouth …

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  • 7ill — ill, sick Ill and sick share responsibilities in peculiar ways, and are not always interchangeable. To begin with, ill is more usually predicative (placed after a verb, as in She was ill), whereas sick occurs naturally in attributive position… …

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  • 8ill-mannered — adjective we never encountered the ill mannered locals you had warned us about Syn: bad mannered, discourteous, rude, impolite, uncivil, abusive, disagreeable; insolent, impertinent, impudent, cheeky, presumptuous, audacious, disrespectful; badly …

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  • 9ill — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (usu. predic.; often foll. by with) out of health; sick (is ill; was taken ill with pneumonia; mentally ill people). 2 (of health) unsound, disordered. 3 wretched, unfavourable (ill fortune; ill luck). 4 harmful (ill… …

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  • 10ill-bred — a. Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, uncourtly, unpolished, uncouth, rude, ill behaved, ill mannered …

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