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Naughty
Open directlySchaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
NAUGHT'Y,NAUGHT'INESS, originally "nothing, nothingness, " mean, in the A.
V., "wicked, wickedness." Prov 6:12.
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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.