saucy
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It’s a rare spot that excels at both minimalist nigiri, where the fish is the star, and saucy, more elaborate rolls.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
I haven’t yet executed this masterpiece — I need to be in the right mood, saucy enough — but perhaps this week is the week.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
It consists of two layers of moist sponge cake smothered in custard filling and whipped cream that’s then topped with a glorious spread of saucy strawberries and dollops of extra whipped cream.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2025
She’d come out singing “I Feel for You” — saucy, casual, effortlessly funky — then glided through “Do You Love What You Feel” and “What Cha’ Gonna Do for Me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025
High-heeled shoes with the graceful straps across the arch, the vampy hats closed on the head with saucy brims framing the face, makeup of any kind—all of that was outlawed in Alice Manfred’s house.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
A “true” regulation-size Neapolitan pizza can be broken down by ingredient to the gram: 60 to 80 grams of approved tomatoes on a margherita, and 70 to 100 on a marinara, which is slightly saucier.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
Our young lady returned to us saucier and more passionate, and haughtier than ever.
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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
I mean, the tuba players are always the sauciest ones in the band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024
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
Dear little girl!" continued Abby; "she appears in her airiest, sauciest mood to-night, and is clearly bent on enjoying life to its fullest extent.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
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