sassily
Example Sentences
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When we see her next, it’s from a slight distance: pulling over to a roadside billboard emblazoned with her own face, peering sassily over a lowered pair of Starfire sunglasses.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
He sassily said he was Lionel Messi, the Argentinian football star.
From Nature ● Sep. 10, 2019
I sauntered off as sassily as I could in my mum’s ill-fitting Aztec-print bikini, through a door up some stairs.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2019
In the mid-1700s, Madame de Pompadour rendered a more confectionary pink the height of fashion: In the portraits of François Boucher, she models a succession of sassily beribboned shell-pink gowns and negligees.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018
She tilted her head sassily and kept her eyes right on his.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
