Adjective

(en adjective)

(chiefly, horses) of inferior breeding

* {{quote-book, 1902, title=Cross country with horse and hound, author=Frank Sherman Peer

, passage=I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.}}

lacking in manners or finesse

* {{quote-book, 1923, title=

, passage=Himself, he felt the most underbred of all; he was afraid of these Utopians: snobbish and abject before them, he was like a mannerless earthy lout in a drawing-room, and he was bitterly ashamed of his own abjection.}}

Adjective

(er)

* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), First Folio, The Merchant of Venice :

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.

* (rfdate) Udall:

Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts.

(obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.

* (rfdate) American King James Bible, Jeremiah 24:2:

One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).

Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.

Immoral]], sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, [[risqué, cheeky.

I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.

If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!