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Naughty   /nˈɔti/   Listen
adjective
Naughty  adj.  (compar. naughtier; superl. naughtiest)  
1.
Having little or nothing. (Obs.) "(Men) that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods."
2.
Worthless; bad; good for nothing. (Obs.) "The other basket had very naughty figs."
3.
Hence, corrupt; wicked. (Archaic) "So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
4.
Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child. Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.





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"Naughty" Quotes from Famous Books



... Meadow Mouse did a very naughty thing. He stuck out his tongue. And all the onlookers ...
— The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot - Slumber-Town Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
... a very naughty man, my uncle: is he not? But can't I have another pony? It would be so nice, this ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... course," she answered. "And Mr Martin, the missionary, who came here some time ago, says she is right, and told me never to forget what she says to me. I try not to do so; but when I am playing about, and sometimes when I feel inclined to be naughty, I am apt not to remember as I ought; and then I ask God to help me and to forgive me, through Jesus Christ, and all those things come ...
— The Trapper's Son • W.H.G. Kingston
... painting in Italy meet with prompt response in Flanders; in the many-gabled streets of Nuremberg we hear the voice of the Meistersinger, and under the low oaken roof of a Canterbury inn we listen to joyous if sometimes naughty tales erst told in pleasant groves outside of ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
... "Mr. Brooks, how naughty of you," she exclaimed, shaking her head in mock reproach. "Why, the play begins at 8:15, and it is eight o'clock ...
— A Prince of Sinners • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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