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Webster 1913 Edition
Naughty
Naugh′ty
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Naughtier
; sup
erl.
Naughtiest
.] 1.
Having little or nothing.
[Obs.]
[Men] that needy be and
naughty
, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman.
2.
Worthless; bad; good for nothing.
[Obs.]
The other basket had very
naughty
figs. Jer. xxiv. 2.
3.
hence, corrupt; wicked.
[Archaic]
So shines a good deed in a
naughty
world. Shakespeare
4.
Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct;
as, a
. naughty
child☞ This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.