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
A.I. can be sassy, but it cannot write the tenderness of a high school drama club.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
The story’s sassy, brassy antihero has likewise adorned Christmas trees and school library shelves for generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
“You are funny! I love how sassy you are!”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
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
“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
William bore himself tolerably well, until he was told that he knew as much about baseball as a hog's foot, and was, without doubt, the sassiest "four-flusher" in the city of Toronto.
From William Adolphus Turnpike by William Banks
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