(1) 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.
(2) Possibly as a result of some of the novels she had to read as a judge for the Man Booker and other awards, she rather naughtily gave one of Wexford’s daughters a ponderous novelist boyfriend who wrote “post-modern” novels with “no characters”.
Naughty
Definition:
(superl.) Having little or nothing.
(superl.) Worthless; bad; good for nothing.
(superl.) hence, corrupt; wicked.
(superl.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Karmani described Respect as "the naughty children" of Bradford – "and with parents like that, what do you bloody expect?"
(2) Brand isn’t the messiah (or just a naughty boy, for that matter) and his message pisses off plenty of people.
(3) Funny nice, the kind that comes with a pleasing undercurrent of naughtiness.
(4) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
(5) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
(6) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
(7) Harry describes her as “a total kid through and through”, whose motto was “you can be as naughty as you want, just don’t get caught”.
(8) When Michael is naughty she threatens to hand him over to "the policeman" and she sends grumpy Jane to exile inside a cracked Doulton bowl.
(9) In keeping with her policy of never giving interviews, she was spared a grilling by Naughtie.
(10) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
(11) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(12) In the aftermath of the goal, Ameobi must have said something naughty to Dowd, who sends him to the tunnel.
(13) The impending publication of the putative nude pictures, a humiliation that turned out to be a bluff, might have pulled Watson down among the lower orders of former child stars, those people who now exist in the public consciousness merely as cautionary tales to scare naughty teenagers: “Look what happened to Bieber today!”; “Did you see Cyrus in that outfit?” Although Watson has put her head above the parapet before, the provocation cited by the hoaxers was the New York speech she gave last Monday promoting the HeForShe campaign and arguing that gender discrimination harms both men and women.
(14) Quite the reverse: Charlie Hebdo was described decades ago as “ bête et méchant ” – bad and naughty – and has revelled in the description ever since.
(15) Pupils are never naughty, just “unprofessional”; for lateness, lack of homework and classroom disruption, they lose some of the 50 “professionalism points” with which they start each week.
(16) In recent months, he has fallen out with so many first-team players that locals joke about the need for a "naughty step" at the training ground.
(17) It originally quoted Kathryn Bigelow as saying "naughty subjects" rather than "knotty subjects"
(18) Brazil skipper Thiago Silva must sit this one out on the naughty step after picking up a silly booking - his second of the tournament - for obstructing Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina as he attempted to take a kick.
(19) Naughtie, interviewing Gardner, paused and said "that's a fascinating piece of information".
(20) "He went for it," says Beckett with a laugh, sounding less like a record mogul and more like a naughty schoolboy.