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Definition of naughty in English: naughtyadjectivenaughtier, naughtiest ˈnɔːtiˈnɔdi 1(especially of a child) badly behaved; disobedient. you've been a really naughty boy Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes it's like being a school teacher with a multitude of naughty children to look after.
- They can be like naughty children, up to mischief one minute, bickering the next.
- You cannot win the hearts of naughty nine-year-olds by drawing cartoons that pacify their politically correct parents.
- I feel like the naughty schoolboy who's been called to the headmistress's office.
- There is still a belief that it is acceptable to speed, and that speed cameras are naughty wicked things set up by the government, rather than an attempt to reduce road deaths and injuries.
- Once she has got through playing the naughty schoolgirl, she settles down.
- The treaty basically says no one is going to do anything naughty such as industrial espionage.
- I wasn't a very naughty child generally, so this was quite out of character.
- They knew interesting tales about when my parents were naughty children and they could identify the faded figures in family photographs.
- A campaign has been launched in some newspapers to attempt to outlaw any right of parents ever to lay a finger on their naughty children.
- His first advice to teachers was to understand child psychology before handling naughty children.
- It's rather like keeping the whole class after school until someone turns in the naughty child.
- If your child is naughty, maybe it is the parents that are at fault.
- He sighed like a parent who now had to punish a naughty child.
- Athena's haughty gaze affixed him as if he were a naughty schoolboy.
- She had a funny look on her face, like a naughty child who's just been found stealing cookies from the cookie jar before dinner.
- Upset the person in charge and you automatically feel like a naughty child.
- Like parents forgiving naughty children, they forgive pop culture its badness, because it reminds them of when they were children.
- It is clearly evident that this tragedy has occurred because I was a naughty, naughty child throughout the past year.
- We've all been very naughty, dirty children, and must be treated sternly.
Synonyms disobedient, unruly, wayward, errant, badly behaved, disorderly, undisciplined, delinquent, troublesome, rebellious, defiant, mutinous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, non-compliant, wilful, unbiddable, intractable, ungovernable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, obstreperous, awkward, difficult, perverse, contrary 2informal Mildly rude or indecent, typically because related to sex. Example sentencesExamples - The naughty massage ads are in the Adult Classified, and, trust me, the sky is the limit.
- She had one of those husky voices that suggested very naughty things just by speaking.
- I admit, that does sound rather naughty, but I don't think she meant it quite like that.
- The lyrics to this very hummable song are extremely naughty, not smutty or crude, just enjoyably naughty.
- The Code wasn't simply about getting rid of naughty words or translucent costumes.
- The two would dance ‘suggestively’ and end their naughty escapade with a full kiss on the lips for all the boys to think about later that night.
- It looked strangely naughty, a bit like a dirty postcard.
- It was used to greatest effect when it makes the actors say rude or naughty things.
- And you thought I was going to say something naughty, didn't you?
- An apology beforehand for the use of the naughty word in the image below.
- Julie just gave me that naughty, sexy grin of hers.
- Although pornography is edging closer to mainstream society, its naughty aura means it isn't yet mundane.
- Bruce established his reputation on naughty language and bawdy social commentary: the hallmarks of modern stand-up comedy.
- Explicit language makes a lot of us squirm because it's chock full of taboos: It's crude, it's naughty, it's raunchy, its real.
Synonyms indecent, risqué, rude, racy, ribald, bawdy, broad, spicy, suggestive, titillating, improper, indelicate, indecorous, off colour vulgar, dirty, filthy, smutty, crude, offensive, salacious, coarse, obscene, lewd, pornographic, X-rated informal blue, raunchy British informal fruity, near the knuckle, saucy North American informal gamy euphemistic adult 3archaic Wicked. Example sentencesExamples - The Future Bible Heroes' new album is in very real danger of being a good deed in a naughty world, as this interview suggests.
Synonyms badly behaved, disobedient, bad, misbehaved, misbehaving, wayward, defiant, unruly, insubordinate, wilful, self-willed, delinquent, undisciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unbiddable, disorderly, disruptive, mutinous, fractious, refractory, recalcitrant, errant, wild, wicked, obstreperous, difficult, troublesome, awkward, contrary, perverse, attention-seeking, exasperating, incorrigible bad-mannered, rude, impolite mischievous, full of mischief, playful, impish, roguish, puckish, rascally, prankish, tricksy informal brattish, scampish Scottish informal gallus archaic contumacious
Phrases 1informal A place where a child is sent after misbehaving in order to reflect on their actions. whenever I did something bad, my uncle would make me sit in the naughty corner Example sentencesExamples - The apology that always follows the naughty step technique is a complete waste of time.
- I think, the naughty step is being overused.
- In England, when kids are naughty, they get sent to sit on the naughty step.
- As for the naughty step, that can be just as damaging as a smack if it is used to humiliate a child. "
- Kemal recently had to sit on the naughty step for putting a toilet brush into Roberto's cardboard box.
- Parenting groups have taken issue with the suitability of the naughty step or "time out" method to discipline children.
- The basic principle of having ' time out ' is fine, and the naughty step is a symbol of parents taking back authority.
- The naughty step, is a place of reflection where the child realises they've done something wrong.
- The naughty step reinforces a boundary, but you need common sense as to where you draw it and it needs to change.
- In her monthly column, Jennie Bristow sends today's parenting fads and panics to the naughty step.
- 1.1A situation of public disgrace.
the bosses of the unions found themselves on the naughty step Example sentencesExamples - Those scandal-ridden politicians should get on the naughty step.
- Oh, my, then the whole British internet has to go and sit on the naughty step.
- As a nation, we're heading for the naughty step.
- In her monthly guide to subversive parenting, Jennie Bristow sends today's parenting fads and panics to the naughty step.
- I'd just like to point out that "sitting on the naughty step" has the greatest euphemism potential I've encountered in a long time.
- My friend Mick should be on the naughty step too.
- They were discussing the referee's shortcomings on what one correspondent dubbed "the naughty step".
- Who in the office should be sitting on the naughty step?
- Unless Anna can work out what's going on in two minutes, it's off to the naughty step.
Derivatives adverb ˈnɔːtɪli ‘You're right,’ Aidan agreed and smiled rather naughtily. Example sentencesExamples - Drinking coffee at night still seems naughtily bohemian in this city, and there's an undercurrent of guilty complicity in the air.
- A pair of boys were already naughtily climbing the apple tree, disturbing a couple who lay dreamingly under it.
- Lynn winks naughtily at him, and Clark's smile broadens.
- Many girls had managed to remove their skates and were dancing naughtily to the hip-hop.
- Kitty ignored her grandfather's displeasure and giggled naughtily.
noun ˈnɔːtɪnəs He has obviously got a sense of humour, and his naughtiness makes me laugh. Example sentencesExamples - It's a full moon, we're overlooking the sea below, the cicadas are clicking away; the perfect spot for some holiday naughtiness.
- I can recall blaming a sibling for all sorts of naughtiness when I was younger.
- She has the knack of bringing out the naughtiness in people…
- There's an awful lot of rude words in it, a lot of swearing, a lot of naughtiness.
- Amid the nudity and naughtiness is a disturbing, serious look at power and corruption.
- Although I've been naughty it's a very small naughtiness, and perfectly understandable when you consider the circumstances.
- He had a very highly developed sense of humour and naughtiness.
Origin Late Middle English: from naught + -y1. The earliest recorded sense was 'possessing nothing'; the sense 'wicked' also dates from late Middle English, and gave rise to the current senses. Today naughty generally refers to children or animals that misbehave in a fairly harmless way, but until quite recently it was a stronger word meaning ‘wicked’ or ‘morally bad’, as in ‘An Oxe of mine being a naughty beast, through ye default of mine owne fence hath goared a Cow of your Worships’ (1592) or ‘'Tis a villanous Error of some naughty Men’ (1699). Naughty comes from the Old English word naught, ‘nothing’, and originally meant ‘possessing nothing, poor, needy’. The sense ‘mildly rude or indecent’, found in expressions such as ‘naughty bits’, dates from the mid 16th century.
Rhymes forty, haughty, pianoforte, rorty, shorty, sortie, sporty, UB40, warty Definition of naughty in US English: naughtyadjectiveˈnɔdiˈnôdē 1(especially of children) disobedient; badly behaved. you've been a really naughty boy Example sentencesExamples - His first advice to teachers was to understand child psychology before handling naughty children.
- It's rather like keeping the whole class after school until someone turns in the naughty child.
- Athena's haughty gaze affixed him as if he were a naughty schoolboy.
- Once she has got through playing the naughty schoolgirl, she settles down.
- If your child is naughty, maybe it is the parents that are at fault.
- They knew interesting tales about when my parents were naughty children and they could identify the faded figures in family photographs.
- I feel like the naughty schoolboy who's been called to the headmistress's office.
- He sighed like a parent who now had to punish a naughty child.
- The treaty basically says no one is going to do anything naughty such as industrial espionage.
- We've all been very naughty, dirty children, and must be treated sternly.
- Like parents forgiving naughty children, they forgive pop culture its badness, because it reminds them of when they were children.
- A campaign has been launched in some newspapers to attempt to outlaw any right of parents ever to lay a finger on their naughty children.
- Sometimes it's like being a school teacher with a multitude of naughty children to look after.
- Upset the person in charge and you automatically feel like a naughty child.
- You cannot win the hearts of naughty nine-year-olds by drawing cartoons that pacify their politically correct parents.
- She had a funny look on her face, like a naughty child who's just been found stealing cookies from the cookie jar before dinner.
- I wasn't a very naughty child generally, so this was quite out of character.
- It is clearly evident that this tragedy has occurred because I was a naughty, naughty child throughout the past year.
- There is still a belief that it is acceptable to speed, and that speed cameras are naughty wicked things set up by the government, rather than an attempt to reduce road deaths and injuries.
- They can be like naughty children, up to mischief one minute, bickering the next.
Synonyms disobedient, unruly, wayward, errant, badly behaved, disorderly, undisciplined, delinquent, troublesome, rebellious, defiant, mutinous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncooperative, non-compliant, wilful, unbiddable, intractable, ungovernable, unmanageable, uncontrollable, obstreperous, awkward, difficult, perverse, contrary 2informal Mildly rude or indecent, typically because related to sex. Example sentencesExamples - The two would dance ‘suggestively’ and end their naughty escapade with a full kiss on the lips for all the boys to think about later that night.
- I admit, that does sound rather naughty, but I don't think she meant it quite like that.
- And you thought I was going to say something naughty, didn't you?
- Julie just gave me that naughty, sexy grin of hers.
- It was used to greatest effect when it makes the actors say rude or naughty things.
- The Code wasn't simply about getting rid of naughty words or translucent costumes.
- It looked strangely naughty, a bit like a dirty postcard.
- An apology beforehand for the use of the naughty word in the image below.
- Explicit language makes a lot of us squirm because it's chock full of taboos: It's crude, it's naughty, it's raunchy, its real.
- Bruce established his reputation on naughty language and bawdy social commentary: the hallmarks of modern stand-up comedy.
- The naughty massage ads are in the Adult Classified, and, trust me, the sky is the limit.
- She had one of those husky voices that suggested very naughty things just by speaking.
- Although pornography is edging closer to mainstream society, its naughty aura means it isn't yet mundane.
- The lyrics to this very hummable song are extremely naughty, not smutty or crude, just enjoyably naughty.
Synonyms indecent, risqué, rude, racy, ribald, bawdy, broad, spicy, suggestive, titillating, improper, indelicate, indecorous, off colour 3archaic Wicked. Example sentencesExamples - The Future Bible Heroes' new album is in very real danger of being a good deed in a naughty world, as this interview suggests.
Synonyms badly behaved, disobedient, bad, misbehaved, misbehaving, wayward, defiant, unruly, insubordinate, wilful, self-willed, delinquent, undisciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unbiddable, disorderly, disruptive, mutinous, fractious, refractory, recalcitrant, errant, wild, wicked, obstreperous, difficult, troublesome, awkward, contrary, perverse, attention-seeking, exasperating, incorrigible
Origin Late Middle English: from naught + -y. The earliest recorded sense was ‘possessing nothing’; the sense ‘wicked’ also dates from late Middle English, and gave rise to the current senses. |