naughtily
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5.1
- adverb
- /ˈnɔːtɪli/
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traviesamente
- Peeking naughtily into the shower curtain, silly raised eyebrows ("Oh my!") and compliments pump each other up and keep your partner feeling special.
Examples
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Episode 1 and 2 might be closer to the mark: superbly high-quality games but naughtily short for the money we paid.
Blog text (11) -
For decades, audiences sat down to all movies with an immediate ability to smile naughtily at their artificiality.
Blog text (22) -
And Soap and Glory very naughtily sent me some bits.
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Or, Ethel thought naughtily, could it be this delicious bottle of expensive wine?
Fiction book (1993) -
Robert and Celeste laughed naughtily through their noses.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm afraid there's no drink for us, but there's great pictures of drinking and I'm going to nip naughtily behind the barrier.
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We giggled naughtily watching it as neither of us can take her seriously after watching Nigella Talks Dirty, especially when she cooks in a black silk dressing gown with apparently not much else on!
Blog text (18) -
"Michelle outdoes me in pushups as well," he said, after saying that she's taken some criticism on her technique "because she doesn't go all the way down" -- a line that he let hang, naughtily, provoking laughter from the crowd.
Blog text (20) -
She was sitting on his lap, and he had his arm inside her sweater, his hand waving naughtily to the camera from the V-neck, his bony wrist sandwiched between two slices of Wonderbreast.
Fiction book (1990) -
The children giggled naughtily as they played pranks on their teacher.
Synonyms
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1.0
In a way that is not polite or breaks rules
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4.6
In a playful way that causes small trouble to make people laugh
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7.2
In a playful, slightly naughty way that shows mischief
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6.2
In a rude but playful way that shows little respect
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6.6
In a way that shows someone refuses to follow rules or people in charge
In a bold, playful way that shows little respect
To refuse to obey people in charge in a stubborn way
Antonyms
How Naughty
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6.6
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5.1
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4.6
18
1.4
12
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Naughtily comes from the old word naught, which means 'nothing'. People once used naught to say someone was 'no good' or 'worth nothing', so naughtily now describes doing something disobedient or mischievous.