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Naughty   /nˈɔti/   Listen
Naughty

adjective
(compar. naughtier; superl. naughtiest)
1.
Suggestive of sexual impropriety.  Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, racy, risque, spicy.  "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"
2.
Badly behaved.






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"Naughty" Quotes from Famous Books



... advertisement inserted in all good faith has really been open to a double meaning, the advertiser will sometimes be greatly astonished by the receipt of all sorts of perverse offers. A married woman of my acquaintance advertised for energetic supplementary instruction for her son, a rather naughty boy of ten; and received, in addition to many serious answers several answers from perverts, who stated that they would be delighted to be able to handle a boy in the sense she mentioned. In many cases, notwithstanding the use of the words "energetic" ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll

... turn your stocking, if you wished to escape being pisky-ledden, or misguided: it was the place to which the "Little Folks"[P] conveyed stolen children: above all, it was the place of dark and cobwebbed corners, where naughty children were put to live with snails and spiders and with ...
— Drolls From Shadowland • J. H. Pearce

... a roll of gray stocking from the hall table and flung it into Ursula's room. Ursula knew she would have to follow it, or be picked up and carried in like a naughty child. So she gave the miserable Ramsay a look that made him cringe, and swept into her room with her head in the air. The next moment she heard the door locked behind her. Her first proceeding was to have a cry of anger and shame and disappointment. That did no good, and then ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... from me, you naughty, unfeeling man," she began, with an elephantine attempt at archness. "I was going to ask you to take me down to the schoolrooms, but I shall have to go alone if you fly ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... much," she said, taking the reins from him. "Dandy, you naughty old thing! I got off to pick up my ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse


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