Crossword-Solution: BEHAVING 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Behaving p. pr. & vb. n. of Behave

We have 6 clues for the answer “BEHAVING”

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Acting properly 1 answer
Following to the letter 1 answer
Doing 28 answers
playing 48 answers
Perform-ing 64 answers
Acting 91 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BEHAVING (5)

And he clenched his teeth and did not cry, and soon his shadow was behaving properly, though still a little creased.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Michael’s unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
After all, who shall decide what's fair? For that matter, if someone is behaving unfairly, who's going to stop him? Neither you nor I, that's certain.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
The connotation is that the person so described is behaving weirdly, incompetently, or inappropriately for reasons which are (a) too tiresome to bother inquiring into, (b) are probably as inscrutable as quantum phenomena anyway, and (c) are likely to pass with time.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Hayes seemed unaware that men could be educated, civilized, and claim to be Christians while at the same time behaving as bigots and racists.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

Quotes with BEHAVING (3)

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.
Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian
This way of behaving, this way of feeling, so hysterical, so sad, when someone has died, I don't like at all and would like to avoid. It's not as if the whole thing has not happened before, it's not as if people have not been dying all along and each person left behind is the first person ever left behind in the world. What to make of it? Why can’t everybody just get used to it? People are born and they just can’t go on and on, but it is so hard, so hard for the people left b…
Jamaica Kincaid My Brother
All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.
Paul Karl Feyerabend Farewell to Reason
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Appears in: Newsday.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2012–2022).