Naugh"ty (?), a. [Compar. Naughtier (?); superl. Naughtiest.] 1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.]
[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods.
Piers Plowman.
2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]
The other basket had very naughty figs.
Jer. xxiv. 2.
3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic]
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Shak.
4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
⇒ This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.
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