naughtily
- a word derived from naughty.
Example Sentences
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That these adults-as-teens were navigating all of this—both the breast cancer scares and the thirtysomething dating habits of Brandon Walsh—made it naughtily fascinating, while also keeping everything at a distance, assuringly once-removed.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2019
He delivers instead naughtily reimagined fairy tales and movie scenarios and other testimonies from his own devil-ready twilight zone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2018
They range from the shocking “Nightmare in White” to the naughtily Rabelaisian “Ring of Hans Carvel” to the biter-bit classic “Hobbyist” to a little series about “Great Lost Discoveries,” these being invisibility, invulnerability and immortality.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2017
Meanwhile, rather naughtily, the effects team for the movie, the Brothers Strause, are facing a possible lawsuit for using effects they designed for Battle: Los Angeles in their own LA-invasion schlock-buster Skyline.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2011
The mare’s ears went back naughtily and her lips drew away from her yellow teeth.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
