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behavior
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behavior noun actions, air, bearing, beliefs, carriage, character, comportment, conduct, consuetude, course, course of conduct, course of life, decorum, demeanor, habituation, habitude, inveteracy, line of conduct, manner, manner of life, manners, matter of course, mien, mode of action, mores, personal bearing, presence, propriety, ritual, ritualism, routine, way of acting, way of life
Associated concepts: bad behavior, contemptuous behavior, good behavior, indecent behavior
Foreign phrases: Ad vitam aut culpam.For life, or until guilty of misbehavior. De bono gestu. For or during good behavior.
See also: conduct, custom, demeanor, deportment, manner, modus operandi, practice, presence, procedure, protocol, way


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It is the proper role of government to defend the consumer against just such predatory behavior and to make the dream of homeownership something people can afford and enjoy, not something they get haunted by.
Mortgage vultures by Rothschild, Matthew / The Progressive
Predatory behavior probably originated many times and fossil evidence of predation is documented in the oldest skeletal organisms (Bengtson & Zhao 1992), though predation itself is likely to be much older (Bengtson 2002).
Testing the role of spines as predatory defense by Willman, Sebastian / Journal of Shellfish Research
As a veterinarian, I have learned that there are separate centers in the brain dealing with predatory behavior and with hunger.
Playing dead is a lively topic by Butler, Marshall / Science News
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