well-behaved

adjective

1. conducting oneself in a satisfactory manner

Example Sentences

The roads are clear, fans are well-behaved and, even though a small group of protestors has arrived outside, the atmosphere is one of calm competency.

From BBC

Kara’s colorful shows, often in makeshift tents evocative of a traveling circus, rejected the established theatrical modes then dominating modernizing Japan that were mostly Western, middle class and well-behaved.

From Seattle Times

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, a Democrat who represents parts of Los Angeles, said he and his fiancée, an attorney, were shut out of renting several places just because of Darius, their well-behaved Great Dane.

From Seattle Times

It’s simple human nature: If a parent has a well-behaved kid and an unruly kid, the parent naturally over time expects more of the former and lowers the bar for the latter.

From Salon

But now, decades later, Creech is mostly known inside the walls of the Idaho Maximum Security Institution as just “Tom,” a generally well-behaved old-timer with a penchant for poetry.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• courteous
• polite