sass
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House Democrats were furious, and sass was thrown around freely.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Allison’s Angélique is just as much a standout, renewing the bawdy earthiness of Shakespeare’s nurse with contemporary sass and rousing singing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025
Former child star Danielle Spencer, who brought sass as little sis Dee in the 1970s sitcom ‘What’s Happening!!,’ died Monday after battling cancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
Olson’s penchant for petulance, spite and sass while still remaining loveable — See: Fox’s short-lived "The Mick."
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
I hear the tinge of sass in my voice, but I don’t care.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
"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
She sasses her angry mom, cruises the mall with her girlfriends and dreams of a boy who will hold her close and sing to her.
From Time Magazine Archive
He's the only one of you that sasses back, offers objections, overrules plans.
From David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story by George S. Harney
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
With horrified expressions, they looked at me as though I had lied or sassed Grandma or grown a second nose.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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
In the course of sassing its forebears by burlesquing their excesses and teasing out their subtexts, the show hoots at the clichés of pop fiction and real life even as it indulges them.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2018
“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
Not exactly sassing back, but just about nearly.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
