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?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. iv. sig. D.iij She..shal neuer fynd to do any vylany. For if she can fynd in her harte to do naughtyly, hauyng so many preceptes of vertue to kepe her, [etc.].

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing To Rdr. sig. A.iiij^v They would not liue thus ydlely & naughtily as they do.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 434 Their deserts are naught, and the fruite thereof as naughtily spent.

1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 121 She wondred (pretending Puritanisme) how people could be so naughtily given and prophane as to feast in such Booths and Brothels of sin.

a1692 R. Saunders Angelographia (1701) xv. 305 Ishmael had done very naughtily in mocking of Isaac.

1812 J. Baillie Second Marriage v. iii. 467 I'm sorry I spoke so naughtily of him.

1823 Ld. Byron Let. 19 May (1980) X. 177 But then says the Pope..you must not live naughtily with a heretic..and a foreigner like L(ord) B(yron).

1845 W. A. Carruthers Knights of Horse-shoe xxi. 91 You ought to cry your eyes out..for treating poor Mr. Hall so naughtily.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique sig. ee3 He cometh naughtily by moste of that, whiche he hath.

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 95 A peny naughtily gotten, sayth Chrysostome, is like a rotten apple layd among sounde apples.

a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll4^v/1 How cam'st thou by this mighty summ? if naughtily I must not take it of thee.

1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xi. 107 One of these Prentices..had..made use of him, and thereby much wronged his Master, spending that money riotously which he had got naughtily.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. i. 6 You should find me desirous to know any of the contents of a paper so naughtily come at.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. ii. 40 My Lord, come you againe into my chamber, You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily . View more context for this quotation

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mauvaisement,..lewdly, naughtily.

1677 Duke of Newcastle & T. Shadwell Triumphant Widow v. ii. 80 I ask you, Did you never naughtily together?

1741 E. F. Haywood Anti-Pamela 215 Methinks it is more natural, pursued he, smiling, for you to look upon yourself as my Mistress, than my Servant. God forbid Sir! cried I, I do not mean naughtily, rejoined he, but as the Mistress of my Affections.

1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. iv. 112 So you see, how little danger there is that I should be allowed to act naughtily, even if I would.

1849 W. Dimond Lady & Devil I. ii. 19 Oh lud! uncle, they talked so naughtily, that, if I hadn't been in the dark, I must positively have blushed myself into a fever.

1902 J. W. De Forest Poems 167 They turn naughtily With wantoning glances.

1991 C. Paglia Madonna II in Sex, Art, & Amer. Culture (1992) 11 In my university office..hangs..a life-size..cardboard display of Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Bridget Fonda naughtily smiling in scanty, skintight gowns.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. x. 153 ‘Such is my name,’ returned the youth, a little naughtily.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton ii, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 45 A small boy, who was behaving naughtily on one if the back benches.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. iv. 91 She was naughtily aware of Dudley Sowerby's distate for the story and disgust with the damsel Delphica.

1923 A. Bennett Riceyman Steps iii. i. 124 A beautiful October morning, thought Elsie as she naughtily lingered for ten seconds at the window instead of getting on with her job.

1954 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 20 488 This is another way of indicating that one intends to be naughtily normative.

1999 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 22 Sept. (Editorial section) a16 Instead of the students naughtily staying away from the school, the school naughtily stays away from the students.