Naugh'ty, a.

(nawt'y), a. [compar. NAUGHTIER; superl. NAUGHTIEST.] 1. Worthless; bad. [Obs.] The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2. 2. Hence, corrupt; wicked. A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Prov. vi. 12. 3. Mischievous; perverse; froward; as, a naughty child. ☞ This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in ludicrous censure.