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单词 badly behaved
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badly behavedadj.

Brit. /ˌbadlɪ bᵻˈheɪvd/, U.S. /ˌbædli bəˈheɪvd/, /ˌbædli biˈheɪvd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: badly adv., behaved adj.
Etymology: < badly adv. + behaved adj. Compare well-behaved adj.
1. Of a person or animal: that (habitually) violates standards of proper or appropriate behaviour.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective]
misbearinga1400
misgovernedc1431
misdemeaned1510
misguided?a1513
misordered1529
misbehaved1597
ill-behaved1611
badly behaved1843
haveless1856
1843 Times 15 Dec. 3/6 They could not coerce the..badly-behaved pauper in any other way than a stoppage of a portion of his meals.
1907 F. H. Burnett Shuttle 38 They knew they could say anything they chose, and that at the most she would only break down into crying and afterwards apologise for being so badly behaved.
1996 Daily Tel. 15 Oct. 23/2 He thus failed to answer some hard questions..about the stigmatisation of non-families and the punishment of badly behaved children.
2001 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 29 Sept. r28 Ours are always the most badly behaved dogs, defying all our frantic efforts to curb their bad manners.
2. Of an object, phenomenon, etc.: having properties that do not conform to an expected, desired, or predictable pattern; (Mathematics and Physics) having complicated, irregular, or unusual properties that are not amenable to mathematical or numerical analysis; giving unsatisfactory or meaningless results under some particular operation (cf. pathological adj. 3). Contrasted with well-behaved adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > abnormal in properties or behaviour
badly behaved1883
pathological1939
1883 Lancet 24 Nov. 904/1 Then there is the ‘tumultuous’ or ‘badly behaved’ heart, whose action is never calm.
1924 Math. Gaz. 12 141 In the very uncertain world we live in, this is an exceedingly discontinuous and badly-behaved function of our conduct.
1946 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 68 121 The Bernstein polynomials of a badly behaved skeleton may behave quite well.
1978 J. S. Dreyer in J. S. Dreyer et al. Exchange Rate Flexibility Postscript 282 This claim is made by those who interpret persistent fluctuations of exchange rates around their long-term trends as evidence of..a ‘badly behaved’ speculation in the foreign exchange market.
1996 S. Blackburn Oxf. Dict. Philos. 192 It is widely recognized that any rational defence of induction will have to partition well-behaved properties for which the inference is plausible (often called projectible properties) from badly behaved ones for which it is not.
3. Computing. Of a program: having an undesirable effect on a computer, either by accident as a result of an error, system compatibility problem, etc., or deliberately (for example in software designed to draw a computer user's attention to advertising by means that the user may find annoying). Contrasted with well-behaved adj. 3.
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1984 Austral. Personal Computer May 65/3 ‘Well-behaved’ programs make all their system calls via the BDOS. However, very few applications programs rely solely on the BDOS as it's faster and more efficient to use ROS interrupt calls for devices like the keyboard and video. These can be called ‘fairly well-behaved programs’. The third group is badly-behaved and makes calls direct to the hardware: for example, direct screen addressing.
1996 InfoWorld (Electronic ed.) 7 Oct. Windows NT's multiple asynchronous queues usually help you avoid system instability caused by badly behaved applications.
2003 W. Boswell Inside Windows Server iii. 126 This separation of memory prevents badly behaved applications from crashing the system.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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