sassy

“She had a very sassy attitude, and she had her hand on her hip and her head back with the hair flowing. I was like, ‘Yeah, I can do that.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Viral baby elephant Linh Mai is apparently pretty sassy.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

Or, when the bot feels sassy: “Not X. Not Y. But Z.”

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

She mastered the social and political media by not being boring, sprinkling her views with salty talk and a sassy smile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

“Go on, you fat, overgrown, sassy rabbit,” Hand Clap ordered as he shook the reins, but Red Rabbit stubbornly stayed put.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Both of us queer the Edgar, unhitching it from Mexican masculinity and its misogynist impulses, appropriating it so that it takes on a fresher and sassier meaning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

I saw skyscrapers in the distance and heard mention of a twin — a sparklier, sassier, busier, bigger city slightly to the west.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2019

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

But there was another sassier and more sharp-tongued side to “Thank U, Next”—which, by the way, will also be the title of a forthcoming album, a remarkably swift follow-up to the 5-month-old Sweetener.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019

“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

Then, after she and Cindy Williams guested on a scene-stealing 1975 episode of "Happy Days," their characters were spun off to become mid century Milwaukee's sassiest brewery workers, "Laverne & Shirley."

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2018

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

I tell 'er of all my young ones she's the prettiest and the sassiest.

From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie