(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.
Substandard
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For the CSI, the 49.4% of patients who worsened captured 70.6% of the potentially substandard care; for MedisGroups, the 35.6% of patients who worsened also encompassed 70.6% of the problematic cases.
(2) The improvement was distributed throughout the community and included those who were substandard at baseline.
(3) Geographical location of Manus Island The immigration minister, Tony Burke, who recently moved women and children off Manus Island because of substandard conditions, said families would not be sent to the centre until it was upgraded.
(4) He focuses on counterfeit and substandard medicines and the role of intellectual property and trade law on access to medicines in less developed countries.
(5) As part of an interdisciplinary study of medical injury and malpractice litigation, we estimated the incidence of adverse events, defined as injuries caused by medical management, and of the subgroup of such injuries that resulted from negligent or substandard care.
(6) It is hypothesized that the substandard scores of the doctors do not reflect inadequate competence, but are a result of the difference between competence and performance.
(7) It wasn’t until three substandard kit contracts later in my career that I realised just because you are living your dream, it doesn’t mean you can’t want more from it financially.
(8) Scrutiny of the approach suggests that the psychopathology of these patients was inextricably intertwined with issues of racism, unemployment, poverty, and substandard housing.
(9) Farmworkers live and work under substandard conditions that place them at increased risk of pesticide-related illness.
(10) Some women still report receiving substandard care and some advances have actually created emotional strains for women.
(11) At present, there is no mechanism in place for denial of payment for substandard care, although proposed regulations were published in the January 18, 1989 Federal Register.
(12) We herein report a study which suggests that substandard obstetric care bears little relationship to the etiology of cerebral palsy.
(13) This preliminary study suggests that examining changes in illness severity may be a useful screen for substandard hospital care, but its utility could vary by condition and by how quality problems are defined.
(14) Consequences are: an acceptance of substandard care and a diversion of attention from therapeutic work.
(15) Our findings suggest that the uninsured are at greater risk for suffering medical injury due to substandard medical care.
(16) Substandard ventilation and the recirculation of air in many contemporary buildings has also been implicated in widespread nosocomial transmission.
(17) "We can't just stand by and do nothing when schools are substandard year after year.
(18) Diversiform somatizers had a higher risk of alcohol abuse, psychiatric hospitalization, and substandard income than either asthenic somatizers or non-somatizers.
(19) This is particularly the case where the enhancement is regarded as a vanity or may be detrimental to health, as was the case with substandard silicon breast implants.
(20) Low energy (Le): substandard vs. High energy (He): standard).