naughtiness

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naugh·ty

(nô′tē)

adj. naugh·ti·er, naugh·ti·est

1. Behaving disobediently or mischievously: a naughty child.

2. Indecent; improper: a naughty wink.

n. pl. naugh·ties

One that is naughty.

[Middle English noughti, wicked, from nought, nothing, evil, from Old English nāwiht, nothing; see naught.]

naugh′ti·ly adv.

naugh′ti·ness n.

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Noun

naughtiness - an attribute of mischievous children

mischievousness, badness

disobedience - the trait of being unwilling to obey

prankishness, rascality, roguishness - the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks

naughtiness

noun

Improper, often rude behavior:

horseplay, misbehavior, misconduct, misdoing, wrongdoing.

Translations

تَصَرُّف شِرّير

darebáctvínezbednost

uartighed

Ungezogenheit

mauvaise conduite

neveletlen viselkedés

óòekkt

cattiveria

uskikkelighet

nezbednosť

porednost

haylazlıkyaramazlık

顽皮

naughtiness

[ˈnɔːtɪnɪs] N

1. (= mischief) → travesuras fpl; (= bad behaviour) → mala conducta f

2. (= risqué character) → atrevimiento m; [of joke, song etc] → lo verde

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

naughtiness

[ˈnɔːtinɪs] n

[child] → polissonnerie f
punishments for naughtiness → des punitions pour des polissonneries
a sort of childlike naughtiness that could be very funny → une sorte de polissonnerie enfantine qui pourrait être très amusante
His parents regarded his behaviour as pure naughtiness → Ses parents considéraient sa conduite comme de la pure polissonnerie.

[story] → grivoiserie f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

naughtiness

→ Frechheit f, → Dreistigkeit f; (of child) → Unartigkeit f, → Ungezogenheit f; (of dog) → Unartigkeit f; (= disobedience) → Ungehorsam m

(= shocking nature: of joke, word, story) → Unanständigkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

naughtiness

[ˈnɔːtɪnɪs] n → cattiveria

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

naughty

(ˈnoːti) adjective

(usually of children) badly-behaved. a naughty boy; It is naughty to kick other children.

naughtily adverb

ˈnaughtiness noun

naughtiness

n. malacrianza, travesura, majadería.

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Tulliver, for it runs to naughtiness. How to keep her in a clean pinafore two hours together passes my cunning.

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I attempted to persuade him of the naughtiness of showing reluctance to meet his father; still he obstinately resisted any progress towards dressing, and I had to call for my master's assistance in coaxing him out of bed.

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With this oracular sentence Ben was well satisfied, not minding the naughtiness; but Letty took it ill, her feeling of superiority being stronger than her muscles.

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One of his poems tells how Cowper scolded his spaniel Beau for killing a little baby bird "not because you were hungry," says the poet, "but out of naughtiness." Here is Beau's reply--

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The governess, after saying good-morning, began a long and detailed account of Seryozha's naughtiness, but Anna did not hear her; she was considering whether she would take her with her or not.

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On the other hand, he might have been suspected of hiding a fund of reckless naughtiness. When he had reached the age of fourteen a friend of his late father, an agent for a foreign preserved milk firm, having given him an opening as office-boy, he was discovered one foggy afternoon, in his chief's absence, busy letting off fireworks on the staircase.

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I am not half so angry with the suitors, for if they choose to do violence in the naughtiness of their hearts, and wager their heads that Ulysses will not return, they can take the high hand and eat up his estate, but as for you others I am shocked at the way in which you all sit still without even trying to stop such scandalous goings on--which you could do if you chose, for you are many and they are few."

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The Frau Professor stared at her with horrified surprise; she had thought it was no more than naughtiness on the child's part, and innocent, folly.

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When you wake in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.

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You have probably observed that your baby-sister wants to do all sorts of things that your mother and her nurse want her not to do: to stand up at sitting-down time, and to sit down at standing-up time, for instance, or to wake up when she should fall asleep, or to crawl on the floor when she is wearing her best frock, and so on, and perhaps you put this down to naughtiness. But it is not; it simply means that she is doing as she has seen the fairies do; she begins by following their ways, and it takes about two years to get her into the human ways.

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I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. Read him bits of my letters.

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But Cecil, since his engagement, had taken to affect a cosmopolitan naughtiness which he was far from possessing.