sauciness
Example Sentences
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Instead, it’s cultural window dressing while Vardalos crams in one more dull joke about Nick’s manscaping, Greek voodoo or Voula’s sauciness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
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
When the mushrooms and onions are where you want them, drop in minced garlic, a splash of cognac and enough cream to get the sauciness you’re after.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 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
Emma felt they were friends again; and the conviction giving her at first great satisfaction, and then a little sauciness, she could not help saying, as he was admiring the baby,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
