naughty word

Despite the emphasis on Queenie’s sexual exploits and exploitation, the show is often prim: A car horn bleeps out a naughty word, and even the sex scenes are clothed and rather chaste.

In the words to songs like “Let’s Misbehave,” Porter “found a million and one ways to refer to sex without ever using a single actually naughty word,” Shaiman said.

But it seemed as if after this loss he needed great self-control not to let a naughty word slip out.

It’s so plausibly innocuous — there’s not a naughty word in the bunch — which is what ultimately makes it so cunning.

Barber tweeted that the term “rooted” was a “very, very naughty word in Australia.”