naughty
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
naughty (comparative naughtier, superlative naughtiest)
- Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). [from 17th c.]
- Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.
- Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky. [from 19th c.]
- I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.
- If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!
- (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible. [from 15th c.]
- circa 1596-97 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V scene i
- […] How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica
- Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.
- Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts.
- circa 1596-97 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V scene i
- (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard. [16th-19th c.]
- (immoral, sexually provocative) dirty
- (mischievous) mischievous
- (immoral; cheeky) nice
- French: malicieux, malin, méchant, vilain
- German: ungezogen, unartig, ungehorsam, dreist, frech
- Italian: birichino, furbetto, malizioso
- Portuguese: travesso, levado
- Russian: озорно́й
- Spanish: cachondo, travieso, maleducado
- German: frech, unanständig
- Italian: provocante, osceno
- Portuguese: safado
- Spanish: obsceno, picante
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