sauciness

She even plucked bon mots out of the air, charming the men in dark suits with her sauciness.

In the ultra-politeness, in the spice of sauciness gleaming out from her flashing eyes, the clergyman read incipient defiance.

All her wilfulness and sauciness flashed in her eyes as she lifted her glance at last to his and answered.

You have looks and you have brains and I have a hunch through all that Emerald Isle sauciness you have a heart too.

Yes, in spite of my sauciness, the old soldier evidently took to me more and more.

And there was a lightness, a sauciness, in her manner that had not showed on her previous visit.