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

Without the sauciness and celebrity connection of her first book, “Cleaving” was not as well received, and although Powell continued writing, it was her last book.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 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

It is all rendered with a steampunk sauciness that eschews slick effects.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2015

The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan