sauciness

Example Sentences

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Parrilla finds the balance between Bruiser’s sauciness and seriousness; Byrne plays the clown adeptly; and Slattery, a boss again after “Mad Men,” softens his villainy with some Roger Sterling insouciance.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Our escape room guide had the requisite sauciness to send us into the room with a flutter of trepidation like game show contestants.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

“She was no longer an exciting sensation, she was just another rational adult,” Mitenbuler writes of Betty Boop after the Fleischer Studios watered down her sauciness to comply with Hollywood’s Hays Code.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2020

The mixed seafood ceviches tend to be baroque but pleasurable in their sauciness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2019

The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan