naughty 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"

naughty M.E. naugti "nothing, evil," from O.E. nawiht (see naught). Originally meant both "needy" and "evil." The more tame modern sense is 17c. A woman of bad character c.1530 was a naughty pack.

naughty 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

naughty
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)

naughty (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

naughty ˈnɔ:tɪ adj. (naughtier, naughtiest) 1 (esp. of children) disobedient; badly behaved. 2 colloq. joc. indecent. 3 archaic wicked. øønaughtily adv. naughtiness n. [ME f. NAUGHT + -Y(1)]

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.

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

naughty ˈnɔ:tɪ adj. 1 mischievous, impish, puckish, roguish, scampish, devilish; frolicsome, playful: The children would get naughty the minute the teacher turned her back to the class. 2 disobedient, refractory, insubordinate, bad, perverse, wicked, fractious, unruly, wayward, unmanageable, ungovernable, undisciplined, defiant, obstreperous: Naughty pupils in this school are birched. 3 improper, offensive, vulgar, indecent, immoral, risqu÷, off colour, ribald, bawdy, blue, pornographic, smutty, lewd, obscene, dirty, Colloq X-rated, raunchy: The teacher caught Keith reading a naughty book.

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "naughty": 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

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