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

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

In a show that otherwise flopped on the road to Broadway, she won plaudits from Boston Globe arts critic Cyrus Durgin for her “oblique sauciness and the poise of a veteran.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2021

Opening with versions of recent Girl album tracks given heft by wads of synthetic strings, he shows off his new-school persona: winking sauciness and wedding-band funk.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2015

Emma felt they were friends again; and the conviction giving her at first great satisfaction, and then a little sauciness, she could not help saying, as he was admiring the baby,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen