naughtiness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

badness misconduct disobedience wrongdoing mischief insubordination impropriety tomfoolery misbehavior devilment mischievousness impishness unruliness waywardness lark
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Antonyms

amity care concern charity compliance compassion
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Hypernyms

disobedience

Hyponyms

rascality roguishness prankishness

Examples

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness. Louisa May Alcott

Love and naughtiness are always in their teens. Alfred Austin

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. Rachel Cusk

Poddy's greatest weakness-the really soft place in her head, she's not too stupid otherwise-is her almost total inability to grasp that some people are as bad as they are. Evil. Poddy never has understood evil. Naughtiness is about as far as her imagination reaches. Robert A. Heinlein

Naughtiness is about INNUENDO. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

naughties naughtiest naughtily naughtly Naughton naughts and crosses