Category:Naughty

Naugh"ty, a. [compar. Naughtier; superl. 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. Shak.

4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper Conduct; as, a naughty child.

Note: this word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as Applied to children, or in sportive censure.