sass
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Sung by Dara, a proven pop star with a clutch of Top 10 singles, it's brilliantly unhinged and full of sass.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
The shows are part of her biggest tour to date, which showcases a newfound confidence - in terms of styling, sass and choreography - from an artist who initially performed under a shroud of anonymity.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
For years, football fans have loved her sass and the excitement she exudes as she shouts out her picks, grabbing the anointed team’s helmet and sometimes tossing the opponent’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
In her own way – with a mixture of sass, fun and her distinctive cup of ambition – Dolly Parton asks us to do the same.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026
I didn’t raise my hand a lot or sass the teachers.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
"Witty remarks won't make a difference," Sansa sasses, but she soothes the burn by telling him, quite tenderly, that he was the best of all her husbands.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2019
Even as she eye-rolls and sasses Christian, there is no demand with which she ultimately declines to comply, from skipping out on her work trip to committing to spend her life at his side.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017
So instead, we get the lumpy neo-reggae of “Unapologetic Bitch,” in which she sasses a boy-toy: “See you trying to call me, but I blocked you on my phone.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2015
"No smoking--foreign, domestic or homegrown," one guide sasses near Epcot's 18-story Spaceship Earth geosphere.
From Time Magazine Archive
De oberseer sasses de marster some more, an' den I sees de marster fairly loose his temper for de first time.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various
Mr. Ghesquière’s modern-day stray cats had patchwork jackets sassed up with leopard print, but also great tailored pieces, like cocooning, almost corseted-looking blazers.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2017
Another sassed, “If you have to ask ..you havnt done it properly..LOL.”
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2014
She sassed the audience until it talked back.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2010
Jay Leno will be sociably sassed by fellow TV staples as he accepts the Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct.
From Washington Post
He was being evasive, and that, on top of being sassed by someone my own age, frustrated me.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Jennie, Rosé, Jisoo and Lisa easily nailed a mix of Coachella cool and K-pop razzle-dazzle, stomping and sassing beneath a towering temple roof and making the most of the gigantic stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Lee steals every scene she's in, whether she's wordlessly transfixed by pulling a thread taut between her fingers or sassing a religious game player.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2021
“If you took a family photo right now, you got Grandma with an oxygen tank, probably sassing the photographer.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016
Varys tries sassing her, which backfires: she elevates the art of eunuch-taunting to a level that should make Tyrion feel ashamed.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
“When he walked away after sassing Mr. Crane and my daddy, he said it’d take an explosion to make us see.”
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
