3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Naughty \Naugh"ty\, a. [Compar. {Naughtier}; superl. {Naughtiest}.] 1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster] 2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv. 2. [1913 Webster] 3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child. [1913 Webster] Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure. [1913 Webster] Nauheim treatment From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: 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}, {racy}, {risque}, {spicy}] 2: badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy" [syn: {mischievous}] [also: {naughtiest}, {naughtier}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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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