Meanings
adverbnaughtly (comparative more naughtly, superlative most naughtly)
comparative more naughtly · superlative most naughtly
- obsoletenaughtily; wrongly
Because my parents naughtly brought me up.
c. 1658, Thomas Phaer, "Owen Glendour", The Mirror for Magistrates, reprinted in Shorter English Poems, Volume 1 of Cassell's library of English literature, Henry Morley (editor), 1876, page 180
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