MISDEMEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misdemean mean? 

• MISDEMEAN (verb)
  The verb MISDEMEAN has 1 sense:

1. behave badly

  Familiarity information: MISDEMEAN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISDEMEAN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Behave badly

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

misbehave; misconduct; misdemean

Context example:

The children misbehaved all morning

Hypernyms (to "misdemean" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misdemean"):

fall from grace (revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior)

act up; carry on (misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way)

Sentence frames:

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