lippy
Example Sentences
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“I get too lippy with him, he brings me over to his car, and just I didn’t help my situation at all,” he said in the video, calling his behavior “ridiculous,” “immature” and “disrespectful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Under Hudes’s direction, the Author is played by five performers referred to collectively on the pages of the script as Grrrls, a lippy Greek chorus.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
He can be lippy or lose his cool, and can have a very caustic edge whether joking or not.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2020
Also lippy is cheeky-chappy contestant Frankie Cocozza from Brighton.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2011
We’d already seen how she could make short work of peddlers even when they weren’t lippy.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
