sauciness

Example Sentences

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Parrilla finds the balance between Bruiser’s sauciness and seriousness; Byrne plays the clown adeptly; and Slattery, a boss again after “Mad Men,” softens his villainy with some Roger Sterling insouciance.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Our escape room guide had the requisite sauciness to send us into the room with a flutter of trepidation like game show contestants.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

In a show that otherwise flopped on the road to Broadway, she won plaudits from Boston Globe arts critic Cyrus Durgin for her “oblique sauciness and the poise of a veteran.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2021

Andrea’s drawing of a standing man, however, betrays Mannerist inclinations; there is a sauciness to the figure’s pose, with its foreshortened elbow, and an obsession with the folds of the cloak draped over the shoulder.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2012

The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan