as in mischievous
engaging in or marked by childish misbehavior
told her to act her age and stop throwing temper tantrums like a naughty little girl
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Recent Examples of naughty
Park Station is now open on the island a few blocks from the beach, serving suds, live music and kind-of-naughty comfort food.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Now, the hit show is getting a naughty makeover as a musical.
—Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Spencer crafts a delightful enemies-to-lovers romp with enough naughty tennis and pickleball puns to fill a ball machine.
—EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
There’s rushing water, too, which is anything but naughty.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for naughty
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An 1856 drawing of a popular San Francisco saloon known as the Cobweb Palace depicts a crowd of humans joined by two dogs, a pig, a parrot, and six monkeys—at least two of whom seem to be doing mischievous battle with men in the crowd.—
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Behind the decks, a mischievous, trigger-happy DJ Próvaí occasionally came in a beat too early, adding an air of levity to the occasion.—
Adjective
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Many of the people opining and whining about how this moment could be as bad or worse than the 2000 bust are uninformed or ahistorical.—
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Thankfully, my passport wasn’t stolen, nor was it stranded somewhere in the middle of the rainforest (my worst fear at the time).—
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“Naughty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/naughty. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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