[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy
goods. --Piers
Plowman.
2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]
The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv.
2.
3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic]
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.
4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or
improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter
sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure.