Definitions
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- noun The way a living creature
behaves oracts . - noun The way a device or system operates.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- noun (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
- noun (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
- noun manner of acting or controlling yourself
Etymologies
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Examples
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Firstly they are being asked to lie by saying that they have arrived when they havent-this forms a discipline offence and anyone who encourages this behaviour is also liable to discipline
Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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They have no insight that their behaviour is actually problematic.
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Thinking about how one's children/grandchildren would think about his or her behaviour is an excellent filter for how we should act (though, not the ONLY one people should rely on, imo).
We're rolling back class and good taste! Tyler 2009
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If her behaviour is any indication of the type of president she could have been then case closed - Hillary you never had a chance.
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This behaviour is the act of an insecure idiot who can only feel good about himself by knocking people down.
Memory Is The Guardian Of Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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This behaviour is there at the outset too, it's not as if we see it growing and have some reference of caring to point back to in them.
Filmstalker Review: De Particulier à Particulier (Hotel Harabati) 2006
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Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same things, feel the same threat, then their behaviour is already captive – you have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder.
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If she wishes to repeatedly use disparaging terminology, repeatedly suggest ideological blindness, and ideologically driven attempts to control information then I will inform her that her behaviour is the exact opposite of what this list requires of guests.
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Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same things, feel the same threat, then their behaviour is already captive – you have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder.
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In its weekly Internet newsletter on Friday, the ANC once again released a statement, first issued earlier this week, in which it labelled her behaviour as "regrettable".
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Psychologists call repetitive actions that interfere with an individual’s ability to cope with daily life “maladaptive behaviours”.
Daydreaming has a dark side – is your fantasising holding you back? #author.fullName} 2024
sakhalinskii commented on the word behaviour
“This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night to day, thou canst not then be false to any man.�? - Shakespeare
July 30, 2008