NAUGHTY

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having little or nothing. [Obs.] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman.

2.
a.

Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.] The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2.

3.
a.

hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic] So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

4.
a.

Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.