naughty

Example Sentences

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"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

"She was an extraordinary person, a brilliant writer, nice person and naughty."

From BBC

"The two of us get together and we're like a couple of naughty kids at school that need to be wrangled to be focused," he said.

From BBC

My dad says when I was a child, he took me to the country club one Sunday after church and I began misbehaving—knocking stuff over, throwing rolls and being naughty.

From The Wall Street Journal