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

“She was no longer an exciting sensation, she was just another rational adult,” Mitenbuler writes of Betty Boop after the Fleischer Studios watered down her sauciness to comply with Hollywood’s Hays Code.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2020

The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan