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Recent Examples of naughty The players even ranked which of their teammates were on the naughty or nice list this year. Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 25 Dec. 2024 The eye-catching jacket—with an assist from the leopard print bag—gave Moss’s ladylike outfit a naughty edge. Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2025 The naughty version pours sugar into your gas tank and rats you out to the IRS. Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025 Making things worse, someone out there was naughty, preventing Santa from conducting his typical year-end rally in the stock market. Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for naughty

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“Naughty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/naughty. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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