naughtily

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for naughtily
Adverb
  • But not without some awfully tense moments getting there.
    Frank Rajkowski, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The Matthew Knies, Auston Matthews and Matias Maccelli line was awfully quiet, save for a bad penalty by Knies and the nice empty-netter from Matthews.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Demented cheering was broadcast on social media so loudly that many not-terribly-political Americans took notice.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Not terribly long ago, Spanish restaurants were abundant in this part of Manhattan, but a good number have died off in recent years.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Former President Joe Biden technically reduced the deficit, but only after beginning his presidency with a $3 trillion shortfall in 2021 to fund his disastrously inflationary American Rescue Plan.
    Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • That can leave infections insufficiently treated, ultimately fueling the fire of resistance.
    NPR, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That anomaly yields a joke or two about Grofield using his acting skills to get into character on the job, but it’s insufficiently developed to add much.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The Office of Management and Budget, like Vought himself, is little known outside the Beltway and poorly understood even among political insiders.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Kyiv’s grip is precarious, and the Russian advances across open land and through tiny villages leave Ukraine poorly placed for winter.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Last seen horrifically disfigured and injured on Earth-X, Peacemaker's alternate-universe brother survived despite Harcourt's attempt to kill him.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • When people are perhaps more vulnerable than any other moment and that vulnerability is, horrifically, exploited.
    Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Naughtily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/naughtily. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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