sass

In her debut as the secondary lead of “Rubies,” often described as having showgirl impact, the leggy and smilingly haughty soloist Naomi Corti hit all of her choreography’s marks with flair and sass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

House Democrats were furious, and sass was thrown around freely.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

In her own way – with a mixture of sass, fun and her distinctive cup of ambition – Dolly Parton asks us to do the same.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

With serves touching 150mph and plenty of on-court sass, Shelton announced himself with his run to the New York semi-finals in 2023.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

Mom catches my eye with a gleam in hers and says with sass, “Don’t worry—I got this!”

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

"Witty remarks won't make a difference," Sansa sasses, but she soothes the burn by telling him, quite tenderly, that he was the best of all her husbands.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2019

Even as she eye-rolls and sasses Christian, there is no demand with which she ultimately declines to comply, from skipping out on her work trip to committing to spend her life at his side.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017

So instead, we get the lumpy neo-reggae of “Unapologetic Bitch,” in which she sasses a boy-toy: “See you trying to call me, but I blocked you on my phone.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2015

"No smoking--foreign, domestic or homegrown," one guide sasses near Epcot's 18-story Spaceship Earth geosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's the only one of you that sasses back, offers objections, overrules plans.

From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by George S. Harney

Mr. Ghesquière’s modern-day stray cats had patchwork jackets sassed up with leopard print, but also great tailored pieces, like cocooning, almost corseted-looking blazers.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2017

Another sassed, “If you have to ask ..you havnt done it properly..LOL.”

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2014

She sassed the audience until it talked back.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2010

Jay Leno will be sociably sassed by fellow TV staples as he accepts the Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct.

From Washington Post

It started out ’cause Cooter Bixby went and sassed Mr. Travis when he didn’t know he’d done it and when he didn’t mean to do it.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Jennie, Rosé, Jisoo and Lisa easily nailed a mix of Coachella cool and K-pop razzle-dazzle, stomping and sassing beneath a towering temple roof and making the most of the gigantic stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Lee steals every scene she's in, whether she's wordlessly transfixed by pulling a thread taut between her fingers or sassing a religious game player.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2021

“If you took a family photo right now, you got Grandma with an oxygen tank, probably sassing the photographer.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016

Varys tries sassing her, which backfires: she elevates the art of eunuch-taunting to a level that should make Tyrion feel ashamed.

From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016

I think she was trying to measure if I really had a lick of interest in sites of historical significance or if I was sassing her.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan