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It was far more naughty nurse than old fogy.
A few portraits are more naughty than nice.
A little more naughty would have been nice.
Panellist John Cushnie seemed to relish the cat's-away mood, being even more naughty than usual.
(Capote's circle also includes the publisher Bennett Cerf, ebulliently played by Peter Bogdanovich.) Capote's betrayal of his friends' confidences is habitual, and more naughty than cruel.
"Cowards Bend the Knee" carries traces of its self-consciously racy peep show past, but the overall vibe is more naughty than nasty.
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Though the women, who are both paraded in states of undress before the camera, come across more like naughty schoolgirls than racy bohemians, they bring warmth and tenderness to their scenes together.
So be careful of anything after 1978, when dark and seditious moved more toward naughty frat boy.
But in rich democracies at least, the active attentions of cultural police, state or private, are directed more at naughty rock lyrics or political "hate" music.
Houellebecq's solemnly blunt descriptions of sex acts are notorious, or as notorious as such things can be in a sex-saturated age; but it is one thing to propagandize for sex and another to integrate it, as more than "naughty bits," into the conflict-ridden flow of incident and psychology that make up a novel.
Resembling more a naughty third-grader than a college professor, Mr. Grayson added kissing sounds to his description of amphibian reproduction and feigned a stomachache when describing how a female leatherback turtle lays 80 to 100 eggs six times a year.
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