sassy
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A cover version of Chuck Berry’s “Back in the U.S.A.” is sassy, but rather than deliver the song as a driving rocker, Mr. Richman strikes a more casual tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Viral baby elephant Linh Mai is apparently pretty sassy.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Or, when the bot feels sassy: “Not X. Not Y. But Z.”
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
"She's sassy, fun and she knows her onions - and her croissants, cake and crumble," Dame Prue added.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
On a normal day, Mom probably would have scolded Emma for how sassy and disrespectful that sounded.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Both of us queer the Edgar, unhitching it from Mexican masculinity and its misogynist impulses, appropriating it so that it takes on a fresher and sassier meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
And my mom has gotten really sassy, way sassier over the past few years.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2021
For British contestants, likely weaned on the screaming matches and snogs of “Big Brother” and “The Only Way Is Essex,” the precedent is to be sassier, unbridled, more candid.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2019
“They’re getting sassier every day,” she said loudly.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
"My goal when I put on the music is let me do the coolest shapes in the sassiest of ways," she says.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Tom wins with his "shrimp cocktail my way," which he explains after giving the sassiest facial expression for no discernable reason.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023
And then there’s Jen Sincero, the sassiest of them all.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2016
One of the new album's sassiest tracks, "Blank Space," was sparked by what was being written about her in the tabloids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2014
William bore himself tolerably well, until he was told that he knew as much about baseball as a hog's foot, and was, without doubt, the sassiest "four-flusher" in the city of Toronto.
From William Adolphus Turnpike by William Banks
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