noughty

Adjective

naughty (comparative naughtier, superlative naughtiest)

1. Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
   • Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.

   Synonyms:

   impish, misbehaved, impudent, sassy, audacious, bold, get wise, bold-faced, bold as brass, brassy

2. Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.
   • I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.

   Synonyms:

   dirty, racy, saucy, adult, bawdy, blue, cheeky, indecent, filthy, gross

   Antonyms:

   innocent, nice

3. (informal) Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.
   • You knew I had to include at least one naughty chocolate smoothie, didn't you?!2014 November 18, Amber Shea Crawley, Practically Raw: Flexible Raw Recipes Anyone Can Make, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   cheeky, epicurean, sinful, voluptuary, Babylonian, decadent, epicureal, epicureous, epicurish, hedonic

4. (archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
   • my proneſſe to ſinne, and naughty appetites and desires, woulde drawe me headlong to the pitte of hell1589, John Bucke, Instructions for the Use of the Beades

   Synonyms:

   baneful, nithing, sordid, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous

5. (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.
   • In Cornwall is two speches, the one is naughty Englysshe, and the other is Cornysshe speche.1542, Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge

   Synonyms:

   lousy, second-rate, two-bit, valueless, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC