adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a naughty child (= doing things that are not allowed )
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He's behaving like a naughty child.
bad/naughty boy
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‘You naughty boy!’ she said in a harsh voice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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Munnery is not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy.
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Yes, when I was ten and twelve years old, I was very , very naughty .
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Yet I don't think I used to be very naughty .
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If you've been a very naughty girl.
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I think he's wonderful, and very funny, but he's also very naughty .
■ NOUN
boy
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A shower of gravel barely missed me, hurled by naughty boys who played among the ruins, ambushing one another.
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In the later poets he was her son and almost invariably a mischievous, naughty boy , or worse.
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He is always pleased to see his nursery teacher but is terrified that she will think he is a naughty boy .
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Flat five: Beatrice, for naughty boys .
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It appears the naughty boys were in the altogether just as a primary school field trip walked past.
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Keith, hyperactive and aggressive, a naughty boy .
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He was the town naughty boy all right, and it was incongruous that he should have been named Wesley.
child
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He was no longer her treasure, but a naughty child , too old to be smacked.
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Then he complains when she begins to behave like a very naughty child .
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To allow the naughty child to be seen as good, the good child also needs to be seen as being naughty.
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Oh, what a naughty child I was!
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This story was recounted as a warning to naughty children .
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Inside there was a climbing frame, Lego roundabout, swings and a wooden catapult for firing naughty children out of the castle.
girl
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She waited with her buttocks bared like a naughty girl , while he selected an instrument of corporal punishment.
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She must be trying to lure him to it, the naughty girl .
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If you've been a very naughty girl .
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Tell her she's a naughty girl ?
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Besides ... you were such a naughty girl where he was concerned.
word
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I've learnt about 60 I suppose overall and half of them are duds naughty words or words for something completely different.
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Bleeped for a naughty word during the telecast, Morissette did not make her way backstage to answer questions.
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The boy might break wind or say a naughty word and forfeit the protection of that great white spirit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a naughty little girl
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Betsy said a naughty word, Mom.
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Dennis sat on his bed reading a naughty magazine.
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I don't believe in hitting children, no matter how naughty they've been.
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They were reading an American novel that seemed to have had all the naughty bits cut out.
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We've been looking for you everywhere, you naughty boy!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Abraham and MacGregor begin tasting that delicious sense of playing hooky from life, just like two big, naughty kids.
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But they were naughty and stayed.
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Dad was told how naughty James had been and then shouted at him and sent him to the bedroom.
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Tale-telling on each other and inciting each other to be naughty are frequent problems faced by parents of young children.
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To allow the naughty child to be seen as good, the good child also needs to be seen as being naughty.
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Yes, when I was ten and twelve years old, I was very, very naughty .
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You want your nice boyfriend to do naughty things - the things this girl does in your fantasies.