Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being naughty; wickedness; badness.
- noun Perverseness; mischievousness; misbehavior, as of children.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable the state of being
naughty - noun countable a naughty act
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an attribute of mischievous children
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Examples
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I had made (yet another) impromptu trip to Bulk Barn and came home with, among other things, dried mango What came out of the oven were the bar of all granola bars - super-healthy, filled with fibre, omega-3s, zinc and just the right amount of sweetness, with the hint of naughtiness from the chocolate chips.
Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah 2008
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Lyra Belaqua, the poster child for Victorian naughtiness, is at the center of the battle between those who wish conformity at all costs and those who fight against it.
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As the f-word devolves further into marketing PR-speak, we're left with Katy Perry's infantilized, finger-sucking "naughtiness" - sexual transgression for the sake of male titillation more than anything-and a long list of songs that are Feminist Lite at best.
NashvilleScene.com 2009
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I posed for pictures that, if discovered, would have cost me a shot at any type of political career long before theNight Calls naughtiness.
The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007
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I posed for pictures that, if discovered, would have cost me a shot at any type of political career long before theNight Calls naughtiness.
The Hardcore Diaries Mick Foley 2007
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Either the excitement of the child may pass all bounds and end in tears and so-called naughtiness, or the unfamiliar surroundings may leave him distrait with a strange sense of unreality and unhappiness.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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If we allow to their souls some noble and free expansion, they may be trusted to divert themselves from that fretful self-consciousness which the nurse calls naughtiness, and the doctor, nerves.
Americans and Others Agnes Repplier 1904
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They mean the evil things which a man does, not out of the weakness of his mortal nature, but out of his own wicked will, and what the Bible calls the naughtiness of his heart.
The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847
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They mean the evil things which a man does, not out of the weakness of his mortal nature, but out of his own wicked will, and what the Bible calls the naughtiness of his heart.
The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847
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They mean the evil things which a man does, not out of the weakness of his mortal nature, but out of his own wicked will, and what the Bible calls the naughtiness of his heart.
The Good News of God Charles Kingsley 1847
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