Meaning of NAUGHTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'notee
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | bad, blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, mischievous, racy, risque, sexy, spicy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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