1.
[syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy]
2. badly behaved;
- Example: "a naughty boy"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Naughty \Naugh"ty\, a. [Compar. Naughtier; superl.
Naughtiest.]
1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.]
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[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy
goods. --Piers
Plowman.
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2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]
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The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv.
2.
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3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic]
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So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.
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4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or
improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
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Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter
sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.
[1913 Webster] Nauheim treatment
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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