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naughty
adjective as in bad, misbehaved
Strongest matches
Weak matches
annoying, badly behaved, contrary, disobedient, disorderly, evil, exasperating, fiendish, fractious, froward, indecorous, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, perverse, rascally, raunchy, recalcitrant, refractory, rough, sinful, teasing, tough, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wanton, wayward, willful, worthless, wrong
Example Sentences
Stewart said the act was “neither naughty nor unfaithful.”
You can take two things like joy as a form of release — just being silly, hilarious, naughty, irreverent — and emotions like pain, humiliation, then trauma and tragedy — and you can also have a release.
Later in the call to police, Sara’s father was said to have told the operator that Sara had been naughty and that he then beat her up, jurors heard.
“She was everything to me, my second mother, even though she was younger, because I was just a stupid, naughty boy,” he said with a sad but wry smile.
Paying tribute to Alexander at the time, his family said he was a "very kind child" who was always well behaved and "never naughty".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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