About The Word Naughty
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Naughty
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What's The Definition Of Naughty?
[adj] badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy"
[adj] suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" Synonyms | Synonyms for Naughty: bad | blue | gamey | gamy | juicy | mischievous | racy | risque | sexy | spicy Related Terms | Find terms related to Naughty: abominable | arrant | atrocious | bad | base | bawdy | black | blamable | blameworthy | blue | contrary | criminal | damnable | dark | defiant | devilish | dirty | disgraceful | disobedient | disorderly | disruptive | evil | execrable | flagitious | flagrant | foul | fractious | frolicsome | froward | headstrong | heinous | ill-behaved | immoral | impish | improper | indecent | indecorous | indisciplined | infamous | iniquitous | insubordinate | intractable | knavish | lawless | lewd | low | misbehaving | mischievous | monstrous | nefarious | nonconforming | not respectable | obscene | obstinate | obstreperous | off color | off-base | offensive | out-of-line | paw | peccant | perverse | playful | pornographic | puckish | rank | raunchy | recalcitrant | recusant | refractory | reprehensible | reprobate | ribald | risque | roguish | rowdy | rowdyish | ruffianly | scampish | scandalous | self-willed | shameful | sinful | smutty | transgressive | unbehaving | uncomplying | undisciplined | unduteous | undutiful | unforgivable | ungovernable | unmanageable | unpardonable | unruly | unspeakable | unworthy | vicious | vile | villainous | violative | vulgar | wayward | wicked | willful | wrong See Also | Naughty In Webster's Dictionary \Naugh"ty\, a. [Compar. {Naughtier}; superl.
{Naughtiest}.]
1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.]
[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy
goods. --Piers
Plowman.
2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]
The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv.
2.
3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic]
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.
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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