misbehavior
1
7.7
- noun
- /ˌmɪsˈbeɪvjər/
- Specialized
:
comportamiento anómalo
- As a Harvard economist, Summers had written articles dissecting financial-market misbehavior and promoting a tax on financial transactions to reduce asset price volatility.
- machine misbehavior
Examples
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Logs are also used for security applications, such as detecting breaches or misbehavior, and for performing postmortem inspections of security incidents.
Academic text (2012) -
"I fear it may involve some possible misbehavior or corruption.
Fiction book (1993) -
Sanctions and other forms of U.S. pressure have failed to prevent Iranian misbehavior.
Academic text (2007) -
If we look at Table 1, we see that there is no misbehavior at the exact and much level, while at the average level there are three at state primary schools and two at private primary schools.
Academic text (2010) -
Russian objections to U.S. policy initiatives, including the development of a national missile defense or a departure from parts of the arms control regime, should be ignored, they say, and Russian misbehavior punished.
Academic text (2001) -
Those misbehaviors that most often cause teaching staff to respond can be assumed to be the behaviors that are most disturbing (Taylor & Carr, 1993).
Academic text (1999) -
The software's unexpected misbehavior caused the system to crash during the update.
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Engineers are analyzing the robot's misbehavior to prevent similar issues in future models.
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Developers monitor the AI for any signs of misbehavior that could lead to safety risks.
Antonyms
How Harmful
144
7.0
- Specialized
396
3.3
- Specialized
1
7.7
- Specialized
211
2.8
- Specialized
3
5.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word misbehavior is made of the beginning mis- meaning 'wrong' and behavior from behave, which means 'to act'. So when a robot, program, or machine shows misbehavior, it is acting in a wrong or unsafe way, not how it was meant to act.