sassy
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Then choose from these options: original, brief, sweet, chill and sassy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Viral baby elephant Linh Mai is apparently pretty sassy.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
The girl band first made a mark with their 2022 debut single, Cardboard Box, which showcased their smooth group harmonies and sassy lyricism.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Or, when the bot feels sassy: “Not X. Not Y. But Z.”
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
And where another parent might have scolded a kid for being sassy with an elder as I had been, they also let that be.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
And my mom has gotten really sassy, way sassier over the past few years.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2021
For British contestants, likely weaned on the screaming matches and snogs of “Big Brother” and “The Only Way Is Essex,” the precedent is to be sassier, unbridled, more candid.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2019
You can dress up any dessert to be saltier and sassier in a few different ways.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2018
“They’re getting sassier every day,” she said loudly.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
"My goal when I put on the music is let me do the coolest shapes in the sassiest of ways," she says.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Tom wins with his "shrimp cocktail my way," which he explains after giving the sassiest facial expression for no discernable reason.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023
And then there’s Jen Sincero, the sassiest of them all.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2016
One of the new album's sassiest tracks, "Blank Space," was sparked by what was being written about her in the tabloids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2014
"For judging by some of your ways you're the spinster Miss Messiter was telling me about, but judging by your looks y'u're only the prettiest and sassiest twenty-year-old in Wyoming."
From Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West by William MacLeod Raine
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