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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy]
2: badly behaved; "a naughty boy"

Merriam Webster's

adjective (naughtier; -est) Etymology: Middle English noughti, from nought Date: 14th century 1. a. archaic vicious in moral character ; wicked b. guilty of disobedience or misbehavior 2. lacking in taste or propriety • naughtily adverb • naughtiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (naughtier, naughtiest) 1 (esp. of children) disobedient; badly behaved. 2 colloq. joc. indecent. 3 archaic wicked. Derivatives: naughtily adv. naughtiness n. Etymology: ME f. NAUGHT + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Naughty Naugh"ty, a. [Compar. Naughtier; superl. Naughtiest.] 1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. --Piers Plowman. 2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.] The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv. 2. 3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic] So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak. 4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child. Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(naughtier, naughtiest) 1. If you say that a child is naughty, you mean that they behave badly or do not do what they are told. Girls, you're being very naughty... You naughty boy, you gave me such a fright. = bad ? good ADJ 2. You can describe books, pictures, or words, as naughty when they are slightly rude or related to sex. You know what little boys are like with naughty words. ...saucy TV shows, crammed full of naughty innuendo. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Bad, corrupt, worthless, good for nothing. 2. Perverse, froward, mischievous, bad.

Moby Thesaurus

abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, bawdy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blue, contrary, criminal, damnable, dark, defiant, devilish, dirty, disgraceful, disobedient, disorderly, disruptive, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fractious, frolicsome, froward, headstrong, heinous, ill-behaved, immoral, impish, improper, indecent, indecorous, indisciplined, infamous, iniquitous, insubordinate, intractable, knavish, lawless, lewd, low, misbehaving, mischievous, monstrous, nefarious, nonconforming, not respectable, obscene, obstinate, obstreperous, off color, off-base, offensive, out-of-line, paw, peccant, perverse, playful, pornographic, puckish, rank, raunchy, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reprehensible, reprobate, ribald, risque, roguish, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, scampish, scandalous, self-willed, shameful, sinful, smutty, transgressive, unbehaving, uncomplying, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unforgivable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpardonable, unruly, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, violative, vulgar, wayward, wicked, willful, wrong