How to use naughty in a sentence

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• The naughty boys decided to bunk school and visit the comic shop.From the entry bunk
• He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.From the entry treatment
• He knows he's been naughty, but it will take a while for it to sink in.From the entry sink in
• The naughty children were given a punishment by their teachers.From the entry punishment
• The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.From the entry well-behaved
• That boy is ill-behaved: he is always naughty.From the entry ill-behaved
• You don't want to get on the FBI's naughty list.From the entry naughty list
• He was being "gooned" - forcibly transported to a place aimed at correcting naughty children's behaviour.2022 October 9, Rozina Sabur, “Troubled US teenagers 'snatched' at their parents' request”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph…. From the entry goon
• Claus may have a harder time hearing whether kiddos have truly been naughty or nice.2020 December 16, Mel Melcon, “Santa is getting socially creative in this distant Christmas season”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles…. From the entry Mr. Claus
• You Irish were all very naughty and it's time you copped on and grew up.2011 October 23, Daniel McConnell, “Tough rehab, yes -- but mind you don't end up killing the patient”, in Irish Independent. From the entry cop on
• When I am on the naughty step I can see into the family room.2011, “The Naughty Step”, in Stephen Jones, editor, Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead, Berkeley, Calif.: Ulysses Press, →ISBN. From the entry naughty step
• She is still talking to them at length about bringing up children without naughty steps.2007, Lucy Cavendish, “Tuesday”, in The Invisible Woman, Rearsby, Leicester: W. F. Howes, →ISBN, page 375. From the entry naughty step
• I’m also on a major pain-killer (naughty appendix, gone now), so please forgive any non sequituri.1998 June 7, Fedor the Mad, “The definition of “evil””, in alt.religion.wicca.moderated (Usenet). From the entry non sequituri
• Andy Jackson puts it more bluntly: "Just because we are off the naughty step doesn't mean we can stop doing stuff.2026 July 8, Paul Clifton, “Brunel does the business”, in RAIL, number 1065, page 31. From the entry stuff
• Other participants suggested that girls with blessers were forward or naughty girls, thus exonerating the actual blessers from blame and responsibility.2018, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Disrupting Shameful Legacies, page 94. From the entry blesser
• Crazier than naughty virgin school girl, French maid—which I really, really liked—or my absolute favorite, Master and slave?”2012, Mia Downing, chapter 6, in Spy Games: Lethal Limits (Spy Games; 2), Adams Basin, N.Y.: The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry dungeon master
• Babbitt, and think naughty bunny thoughts all day.2009, John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground (An Historical Romance 1973), Viking, →ISBN. From the entry friendsies
• Me and my thugs clock G's, sippin' naughty thangs.1999 December 21, “Killuminati” (track 11), in Still I Rise, performed by Tupac and Outlawz. From the entry tat
• Now this is a ‘naughty but nice’ cream.1999, Jamie Oliver, “Mascarpone Cream”, in The Naked Chef, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, “Desserts” section, page 201. From the entry Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt
• The husband himself (called "he" to emphasize his role as Typical Male) comes across as a rather dense, naughty adolescent boy.1989, Alice Hall Petry, “Alice Walker: The Achievement of the Short Fiction,”, in Modern Language Studies, volume 19, number 1, page 17. From the entry Peter Pan syndrome
• Now that the CLOD has decided that it is naughty to see the show, its business probably will become super-supernatural.1947, Toby Litt, Box Office, Associated Publications, page 59. From the entry super-supernatural
• "You are a orful naughty girl," he pouted reproachfully.1917, Pauline Lester, Marjorie Dean. From the entry orful
• In the traditional holiday songs, Sinterklaas brings gifts for good boys and girls; naughty children get a spanking with Black Pete’s bundle of twigs.2013 December 4, Arnon Grunberg, “Why the Dutch Love Black Pete”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry Sinterklaas
• The naughty kids at the back of the class who had been texting throughout the lesson quickly hid their mobile phones under the desk.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “The Midget”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry to what do I owe the pleasure
• She was in one of her naughty, gurglesome moods, and bounced on her chair and waved her hands about in her funniest way.2000, Rebecca West, Bonnie Kime Scott, Selected Letters of Rebecca West. From the entry gurglesome
• You really think with an insano like yours truly around he EVER gets bored and needs to go play "naughty, naughty in closets".1998 October 17, RO...@webtv.net, “"Stinkerton" upstages Madama Butterfly (To Bruce and My Friends)”, in alt.support.arthritis (Usenet)…. From the entry insano
• Thomas short, round and tubby with the look of a naughty cherub, Campbell tall, saturnic and inclined to look gloomy under his wide fawn sombrero.1965, Time & Tide, volume 46, page 21. From the entry saturnic
• I'm making an effort towards communal life in the Coloured quarters of our great metropolis, a small light in a naughty world.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 48. From the entry boorjoy
• “ You're a very naughty boy.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry have
• Because whenever I was naughty Mrs.1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. From the entry Mrs.
• He would always be her baby, a scamp who was “thick” at his lessons and “naughty, just like me.” His emotions, like hers, were always simmering near the surface.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry scamp
• There's no need to feel naughty about facestalking would-be dates on social media before agreeing to meet up, new research says nine in 10 NZ women do it.2014 May 24, “Facestalking' would-be dates on social media is normal, research says”, in TVNZ OneNews. From the entry facestalk
• But the truth is that plenty of artists from other countries make work that's bold, naughty or nasty, without getting more than a very occasional headline.2003 April 17, Blake Gopnik, “Art That Advertises Itself; Saatchi's Ornate New Gallery Pits Young British Artists Against the…. From the entry occasional
• Jukeboxed music segued easily from lightly bleached, textured jazz to soulful yet not too naughty rhythm and blues, and its cuisine was both tasty and tastefully overpriced.1996, Doris Jean Austin, Martin Simmons, Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience. From the entry jukeboxed
• "Naughty cat," she said, but less fiercely, while she zipped down her jacket and made a warm pocket for the kittens in the crook of her arm.1968, John Crowe Ransom, Kenyon College, The Kenyon review: Volume 30. From the entry zip down

Meaning of naughty

1. adjective Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
2. adjective Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.
3. adjective Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.

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Questions about naughty in a sentence

How do you use naughty in a sentence?

Naughty is used as an adjective. For example: “Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.”

What is a short sentence with naughty?

“Meowky as naughty folks”

What does naughty mean?

Naughty means mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).