saucy
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I think of it like a little flavor orchestra: saucy, cheesy, meaty, tangy, fresh.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
After graduating in 2011, he debuted the Ooo-We! sauce, a “sweet, spicy, saucy glaze” that he said pairs well with everything from eggs to pork tenderloin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
Thankfully, the story arc is designed so that chaos keeps barging in, most delightfully in the form of a scene stealer named ParTeb, a goofball from Tunisia who presents as a saucy green alien.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
It's hard to resist dreaming about cookies, specialty cakes, rich meats and super saucy side dishes.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Tinkerbell’s once perfect little nose had completely disappeared, and her saucy red lips had been replaced with an ugly, lopsided smear.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Green has a toothier texture and fresher flavor; red is saucier with dusky, earthen undertones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
It is launching improvements to its burgers including softer buns that are toasted and saucier Big Macs.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023
Just as everyone in a restaurant kitchen has their roles to play, from saucier to sommelier, so too are roles assigned at holiday dinner.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
Add additional wine for a saucier pisto; cook it longer to evaporate more of the liquid for a thicker, spreadable pisto.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
She looked much the same as when last we saw her, a trifle saucier, perhaps, but that was only natural, said her friends, seeing that she had to look after madcap Jack.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The new culinary spinoff “Chef’s Table: BBQ” travels the world in search of the smokiest, sauciest, rib-stickingest barbecue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2020
At 66, John Scofield remains one of jazz’s sauciest improvisers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2018
Shirky’s was only the sauciest form of an argument I heard whenever I mentioned to my techno-utopian friends that I identified with Carr’s distress.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2018
She is the sauciest witch that ever faced sea or showed a clean pair of heels.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
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