Search for crossword answers and clues
An attribute of mischievous children
Answer for the clue "An attribute of mischievous children ", 11 letters:
naughtiness
Alternative clues for the word naughtiness
Word definitions for naughtiness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Naughtiness \Naugh"ti*ness\, n. The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness. I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart. --1 Sam. xvii. 28.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) the state of being naughty 2 (context countable English) a naughty act
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an attribute of mischievous children [syn: mischievousness , badness ]
Usage examples of naughtiness.
Assuredly a Dudley Sowerby would be immensely startled to find in his bride a young woman more than babily aware of the existence of one particular form of naughtiness on earth.
But naughtiness, with hoggery, not lacks When Peace another door in them unlocks, Where conscience shows the eyeing of an ox Grown dully apprehensive of an Axe.
If the memsahib truly loves you, as she claims, your beloved Victoria will forgive you any naughtiness, no matter what it may be.
Some young women are, ever secretly rejoicing in their naughtiness and, once tickled and teased or birched, allowing their drawers to be pulled down, they ever wish to be overcome.
Nepe's choices evinced a pro -- clivity for naughtiness that would have distressed her mother.
Seeing them nude to their stockings and boots would stir us and we would then disrobe also, making much naughtiness about the matter and having our cunnies tickled and our bottoms stirred.
When you wake in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
Her small virtues were so sweet that she would have been quite angelic if a few small naughtinesses had not kept her delightfully human.
That’s why she basically favored Wallis, in spite of her occasional naughtinesses.