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[sas-ee] / ˈsæs i /


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She added: "This is the role of a lifetime... Thank you for trusting this Lancashire lass to play a sassy broad like Patricia."

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Viral baby elephant Linh Mai is apparently pretty sassy.

From MarketWatch Apr. 16, 2026

A.I. can be sassy, but it cannot write the tenderness of a high school drama club.

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

“If there’s anyone who can integrate that school, it’s you. You’re just sassy enough to pull it off.”

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

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

"For judging by some of your ways you're the spinster Miss Messiter was telling me about, but judging by your looks y'u're only the prettiest and sassiest twenty-year-old in Wyoming."

From Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West by William MacLeod Raine




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