sauciness

Example Sentences

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Instead, it’s cultural window dressing while Vardalos crams in one more dull joke about Nick’s manscaping, Greek voodoo or Voula’s sauciness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Without the sauciness and celebrity connection of her first book, “Cleaving” was not as well received, and although Powell continued writing, it was her last book.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 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