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NAUGHTY
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Irregular inflected forms: naughtier , naughtiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Badly behaved
Example:
a naughty boy
Classified under:
Similar:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
Derivation:
naughtiness (an attribute of mischievous children)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suggestive of sexual impropriety
Example:
spicy gossip
Synonyms:
blue; gamey; gamy; juicy; naughty; racy; risque; spicy
Classified under:
Similar:
sexy (marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest)
Context examples:
"Don't think of me at all. I'd rather you wouldn't," said Meg, taking a naughty satisfaction in trying her lover's patience and her own power.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I shall tease you, 'till you let me have my own way about it. I shall lead my naughty boy such a life, if he don't make you go.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"You naughty little thing!" she said. "Why don't you come when you are called?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"It's that naughty boy. I told him to go to sleep alone, and here he is, downstairs, getting his death a-cold pattering over that canvas," said Meg, answering the call.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“No, no! please!” cried Dora, with a kiss, “don't be a naughty Blue Beard! Don't be serious!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"And what a scream! If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Ah, yes, I hear these naughty ones go to vex you, Mees Marsch. If so again, call at me and I come," he said, with a threatening frown that delighted the little wretches.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“Don't. I know she's a naughty, mischief-making old thing! Don't let her come here, Doady!” which was a corruption of David.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My only comfort, she said to Meg, with tears in her eyes, is that Mother doesn't take tucks in my dresses whenever I'm naughty, as Maria Parks's mother does.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
