Sentence examples for were naughty from inspiring English sources

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were naughty

adjective

Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).

  • Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.

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We were naughty little kids.

You cannot say those boys were naughty guys or playboys, then turned one hundred and eighty degrees.

The Rev holds court among vintage pastel murals that depict men and women relieving themselves in complicated ways, scenes that were naughty once and will be bizarre forever.

The general also dropped the warm, avuncular approach he and others in the council had taken toward the news media, chastising journalists as though they were naughty schoolchildren.

It was the finger-wagging that made Libyans so angry, as if they were naughty children and he was the headmaster's top prefect.

In the past, they were naughty children who ran away, or were seen as wayward girls wanting to have sex with these guys.

8.35pm GMT The President's opening joke about having a list of journalists who were "naughty" or "nice" is not being received well in some quarters.

They were not just sweet little old ladies they were naughty, boisterous, grinning "wink wink, nudge nudge" sweet little old ladies; their language laced with double entendres.

In response, Carlson issued a brief statement dismissing any controversy; he allowed that his comments were "naughty" and invited critics to come on his program to debate him — an attempt to turn lemons into Nielsen ratings.

Georgia Engel, as the doting servant Marina, gives a performance of easygoing warmth and light humor too, tending to her ill-tempered charges as if they were naughty children whose bad behavior she cannot bring herself to reprimand.

At last weekend's Bafta TV awards Norton's opening monologue was run in full, although some of the gags, for example about Television Centre and "the stories that building could tell" ("well, it's shut now, let's leave it") or some stars' recent experiences ("we want to finish before any of our winners or nominees are unavoidably detained"), were naughty.

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