well-behaved
Example Sentences
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If parents only left money to well-behaved adult children with a pristine record of good manners and fiscal responsibility, most pet shelters would probably never have to raise funds again.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
It sounds like something out of a Trollope novel—a well-behaved boy lapping up statecraft over dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
She was a lovable child, always smiling and well-behaved, said Denes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
At first his projects were fairly well-behaved and faithful, at least outwardly, to the Modernist principles he had learned at USC: flat roofs, restrained geometry.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
But Nollie was different from me; she was pretty and well-behaved and always had her handkerchief.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
