The phrase "a naughty thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or behavior that is mischievous or slightly improper, often in a playful or lighthearted context.
Example: "She knew it was a naughty thing to do, but she couldn't resist sneaking a cookie before dinner."
Alternatives: "a mischievous act" or "a cheeky behavior".
He tries to remember to say "that's a naughty thing to do" rather than "you're a naughty boy".
There was an announcement in the Times the other day of a playwriting contest sponsored by the office of Samuel Frenc One of the conditions was that the sponsor "reserved the right at any time to declare ineligible any author who is, or becomes publicly involved, in scholastic, literary, political or moral controversy".... Controversy is now a naughty thing, a disqualifying thing.
Arbus, who famously photographed American outsiders and eccentrics, including so-called freaks from carnival shows, also described the lure of the camera thus: "I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do... when I first did it I felt very perverse".
"It was a naughty thing to do," Keating later admitted, "but the alternative was filling in cracks.
I know that I did a naughty thing, but that does not make me a naughty person.
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I grew up in a very fundamentalist Christian family; I had this sense as a very young boy that sex was a bad, naughty thing; that if God had planned it better we wouldn't have to have sex to have babies.
Colin Greenwood admitted that the band, in attempting it to see if they could make the disparate elements work together, "felt like irresponsible schoolboys who were doing this ... naughty thing, 'cause nobody does a six-and-a-half-minute song with all these changes.
In my experience, the only slightly "naughty" thing that's happened at a work Christmas outing was a female colleague flashed her bra.
They had Derek in 1946, and he grew up in Leeds, developing a reputation for being a tearaway, the boy who'd always do the naughty thing.
Reading a story about a woman who had poisoned a man and kept his corpse with her for years seemed like such a naughty, rebellious thing for such a young child to read.
