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Meanings of naughtiness in English

Portuguese
travessura
Catalan
maldat
Spanish
maldad

An attribute of mischievous children.

        travessura
        Usage of naughtiness in English
        1
        But naughtiness will always out, and the next time Featherhead was caught.
        Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers
        2
        She looked up at Richard smiling, that same dainty naughtiness very present.
        The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
        3
        And somehow you knew it wasn't your naughtiness that made her cry.
        Life and Death of Harriett Frean
        4
        After lunch, when they were resting, you could feel naughtiness coming on.
        Mary Olivier: a Life
        5
        By night, it was always a place of naughtiness and dancing girls.
        The Guardian
        6
        I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
        Little Women
        7
        I see him in Bobbie; I feel him in Bobbie's dearness and naughtiness.
        The Man Thou Gavest
        8
        Wherever there's naughtiness in the world of Islam, Saudi money usually is involved.
        Man in the Middle
        9
        The imagery of choice is no longer the Wild West, gambling, and naughtiness.
        The new yorker
        10
        It is too beautiful a night to be spent in tears and naughtiness.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 / A Magazin...
        11
        These days, the city's reputation for naughtiness has pretty much diminished.
        The new yorker
        12
        It sounds ingenious, Hackworth had said, startled by Finkle-McGraw's offhanded naughtiness.
        The Diamond Age
        13
        The superfluity of naughtiness is at this day become no sin with many.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
        14
        The Church knows how to deal with naughtiness of that kind.
        Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
        15
        One day Fairy Fluffikins was well paid out for some of her naughtiness.
        The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse
        16
        A naughty child is not a child as long as his naughtiness lasts.
        Adela Cathcart, Volume 1
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        Translations for naughtiness
        Spanish
        maldad
        Naughtiness through the time
        Naughtiness across language varieties
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