naughty
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Another surprise is the UK being taken off the bond markets' naughty step, and instead being named model pupil by the IMF.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
He was being a naughty boy hoping to make me laugh.
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
And my dad goes, ‘No, no, it can’t be. Not my Estefania. She would never be so naughty.’
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
There’s the writing, thick with jokes, puns and the cognitive dissonance of little kids making references wiser and naughtier than their years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022
“She just kept on getting naughtier and more challenging,” she said.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2020
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 ● Aug. 2, 2019
Amundeep admits she was the naughtier of the pair.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2015
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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