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. 22, 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