Sentence examples for behaving excessively from inspiring English sources

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"Right now we can't guard against someone walking into a lottery retailer and buying too many tickets and behaving excessively," Mr. Jones said.

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In Adam's administration the monks had gained notoriety for behaving in an excessively secular fashion.

"Codependency (or codependence, co-narcissism or inverted narcissism) is a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively care-taking ways that negatively impact one's relationships and quality of life.

One sentence, in particular, sums up this criticism: "At the same time that professional American athletes were using steroids to pump themselves up to cartoonish dimensions, American business-people were blazing new trails in excess and using their unprecedented wealth to gain new license to behave ever more excessively".

In a revealing interview following the collapse of the case, Tulisa spoke of feeling that she was being excessively punished, more so anyway than other recklessly behaving celebrities one could mention, simply for being what amounts to an uppity chav, which sounds about right.

The great variety of cancers reflects the fundamental mechanism by which the disease arises: the different combinations of genetic variations that cause normal cells to grow excessively and behave badly.

If a cat behaves erratically, breathes heavily, drools excessively, or generally acts lethargic and unusual, call animal control.

"So not excessively excessive.

Detractors contend that these responsibilities allow the A.B.A. to behave like a guild — limiting competition and keeping the cost of legal education excessively high.

Starkey interprets this as arrogance and excessively high self-esteem – "nobody has ever told them their behaviour is unacceptable" – and so test-rides the Daily Mail answer to badly behaved kids.

So behave.

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