naughty
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Gentle parenting is seen by some as the latest swing away from a strict, detached parenting style popular in the 1990s, which often relied on controlled crying, the naughty step and time out.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
He was being a naughty boy hoping to make me laugh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
With Atkinson also on the naughty step, Robinson injured and Smith on paternity leave it means five changes.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
GTA III in 2001 was a naughty revelation—a first-person, three-dimensional, open world of beauty and barbarity.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
She’d clearly been prepared to swat a naughty boy, and now looked at the first grader in astonishment.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
This karaoke hit allows the singer to play a naughtier, less commonly-utilized Taylor character: the heartbreaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
“She just kept on getting naughtier and more challenging,” she said.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2020
His creations work equally well on the gallery wall, hung salon-style at Anton Kern in New York, or on Instagram, where the images are stripped down, even more existential and sometimes naughtier.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2020
Amundeep admits she was the naughtier of the pair.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2015
And I was way naughtier than either of my cousins.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
The naughtiest Magnificent Seven stock is clearly Tesla.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
In the run-up to the 2017 general election, then-prime minister Theresa May was asked to share the "naughtiest thing" she ever did in an interview with ITV News.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
When she was running for office, asked what was the naughtiest thing she did in her youth, May, a vicar’s daughter, answered that she once ran through a farmer’s field of wheat.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019
Last year, she told an interviewer that the naughtiest thing she did as a child was to “run through fields of wheat.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
“All this stuff you’re doing. You’re probably the naughtiest student there’s ever been in our school. And you’re doing it all to save him.”
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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