naughty

Example Sentences

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“I’m not speaking for Mary Shelley, but there must have been some other, naughtier, wilder, more dangerous things that Mary Shelley wanted to say that weren’t said in ‘Frankenstein.’

From Los Angeles Times

The naughty boys who played on bomb sites resented the legend of heroism but took pride in capturing the flag.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We can be naughty, we can be mischievous, we can be cheeky, we can have fun, we can have great banter too," he says.

From BBC

"I'm not being naughty or anything. I'm not doing anything at all."

From Literature

His lips would twitch and pucker for a second before they stretched into a curve, like someone who had just done something naughty and wasn’t going to tell you what it was.

From Literature