naughty
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When it comes to naughty scamps, American literature has Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Romantic, criminal and naughty hijinks ensue and bonds are tested — and ultimately reinforced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
This week it was revealed a chicken sandwich is packing as much salt as five McDonald's cheeseburgers - putting it top of a naughty list of more than 500 sandwiches analysed.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
“Apologies, I can’t always control the laugh. Anyhow, a naughty being sought me out at my designated time. I was required to help him.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Made when Murphy was at peak stardom, the John Landis-directed romantic comedy plays like a dispatch from a more innocent era — and also, paradoxically, a naughtier, less inhibited one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
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
Another is the radical press, which also played a part in unmasking their naughtier enterprises, but which Moran merely dismisses as "trendy".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2013
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
“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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