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sassy

[sas-ee] / ˈsæs i /


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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

Insider info: The actress Tânia Maria—who plays the sassy woman who takes in Moura’s character—has become such a phenomenon in Brazil since the film’s release she’s doing Heineken and Burger King ads.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 2026

The story’s sassy, brassy antihero has likewise adorned Christmas trees and school library shelves for generations.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 25, 2025

Biddy put on her sassy face and voice and say, “Lot you know. I’m doing tie chee.”

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

One of the sassier stars of “Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta” decamps to the Sunshine State in the new reality series “Joseline’s Cabaret: Miami.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2021

I saw skyscrapers in the distance and heard mention of a twin — a sparklier, sassier, busier, bigger city slightly to the west.

From Washington Post Oct. 9, 2019

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

But there was another sassier and more sharp-tongued side to “Thank U, Next”—which, by the way, will also be the title of a forthcoming album, a remarkably swift follow-up to the 5-month-old Sweetener.

From Slate Feb. 4, 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

Then, after she and Cindy Williams guested on a scene-stealing 1975 episode of "Happy Days," their characters were spun off to become mid century Milwaukee's sassiest brewery workers, "Laverne & Shirley."

From Salon Dec. 18, 2018

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 Banks, William




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