lippy

Example Sentences

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“I get too lippy with him, he brings me over to his car, and just I didn’t help my situation at all,” he said in the video, calling his behavior “ridiculous,” “immature” and “disrespectful.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Under Hudes’s direction, the Author is played by five performers referred to collectively on the pages of the script as Grrrls, a lippy Greek chorus.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022

He can be lippy or lose his cool, and can have a very caustic edge whether joking or not.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2020

Huang is a young, brash chef, mostly famous for being a lippy kid with an ear for hip hop and a taste for the hilarious dis.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2010

We’d already seen how she could make short work of peddlers even when they weren’t lippy.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck