naughty
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From naughty penguins to ungovernable elephant seals, funny animals attracting attention on the internet is nothing new.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Telegraph, external suggests Burnham's response, that he was "just a naughty boy", is one reason why Labour likes him.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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
His tics are not naughty mischief but an uncontrollable action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
It served him right because he had been so monstrously naughty.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
While Holland is a bit youthful for the role, he’s in a fun zone as a naughtier, zippier version of his Queens-born city kid Peter Parker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
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
"Naughty, naughty!" she chuckles, admonishing a plastic bottle chucker, and is still grinning through the mass singalong R.I.P., the May No 1 that seems to wish much naughtier things upon a love rival.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 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
Johnson claimed he had been asked to say what was the naughtiest thing he was prepared to admit, rather than the naughtiest thing he had ever done.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019
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
He knew that he was the naughtiest cub in the litter.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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