How To Use Naughtiness In A Sentence
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Like a kid, Mr. Mailer was fascinated by his own naughtiness -- his earliest critics castigated him for the vulgarity of his language, though his editors insisted that he use the word "fug" in "The Naked and the Dead.
A Boy's Life
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Idleness," says Burton, in that delightful old book "The Anatomy of Melancholy," "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ...
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success
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Roman law, flocked into such centres; a tenacious and ambitious race of men issued from among the burgesses, who equally hated the naughtiness of the lords and what they called the lawlessness of the peasants.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
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Idleness," he says, "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ....
Character
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I can recall blaming a sibling for all sorts of naughtiness when I was younger.
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Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a sole cause of this and many other maladies, the devil's cushion, as [1540] Gualter calls it, his pillow and chief reposal.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Note also that Adams is so dozy as to include in his blitzkrieg on the overuse of ‘basically’ a sentence that commits precisely the same sort of lexical naughtiness.
“Attacks” on the language are greatly misunderstood
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When he poked his tongue at the press it was just a young boy's natural naughtiness.
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Come on, what acts of naughtiness have your angelic looks been able to cover up?
The Sun
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The kids show the innocence, naughtiness and loyalty of children.
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Ultimately, however, the finished product is a notably unstylish cross between toothless naughtiness and almost school play-calibre theatricality.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, overborne by his naughtiness, I purpose to break his ill-sounding arrows and his bow in his very sight.
The Argonautica
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There's a coffee stain on her dress and a sleepy naughtiness to her demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rituals of transgression, sensationalist violation and titillating naughtiness became the stock-in-trade of popular news reporting in the late nineteenth century.
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I'm now filled with a sense of youthful naughtiness mixed with zest for life which I always get when I see evening through to sunrise.
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There's a coffee stain on her dress and a sleepy naughtiness to her demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a coffee stain on her dress and a sleepy naughtiness to her demeanour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides, his thinking and writings on humor paid attention to the aesthetic value of humor, which includes farcicality , wittiness, naughtiness, irony and laugh.
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Hence, Ellis went back and reshot a number of scenes in March this year with a view to increasing the gore and naughtiness.
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Rituals of transgression, sensationalist violation and titillating naughtiness became the stock-in-trade of popular news reporting in the late nineteenth century.
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Mr. Bear returns, discovers the naughtiness and punishes Edith by spanking her.
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I wanted to see the naughty spot on it," answered mamma, "I heard it call auntie a _name_ just now, and I wanted to tell you if I ever heard it call any one that again, I should put something on the spot to cure the naughtiness.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879
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Who knows what naughtiness he is cooking up behind that sensible, school-teacherly exterior?
The Sun
