naughty
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He first appears dressed as Santa Claus, who has come to deliver a hand towel or a pink slip to his employees, depending on whether he deems them naughty or nice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Children arrived naughty and finished like angels, full of ideas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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
"Naughty boys do naughty things, and in his older age he did the right thing," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
As a naughty child, I was well versed in Xhosa threats.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
“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 ● Mar. 1, 2026
Amundeep admits she was the naughtier of the pair.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2015
Her naughtier subjects have a wistful side, as well.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2014
He thinks, wrongly, that they are naughtier than other children, and I feel defensive that he's criticizing the way I’m raising them.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2012
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
But my colleague Geoffrey A. Fowler recently reported on the country’s naughtiest internet providers and he found:
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023
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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