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saucy

[saw-see] / ˈsɔ si /


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It’s a rare spot that excels at both minimalist nigiri, where the fish is the star, and saucy, more elaborate rolls.

From Salon Sep. 29, 2025

I think of it like a little flavor orchestra: saucy, cheesy, meaty, tangy, fresh.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2025

I haven’t yet executed this masterpiece — I need to be in the right mood, saucy enough — but perhaps this week is the week.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2025

After graduating in 2011, he debuted the Ooo-We! sauce, a “sweet, spicy, saucy glaze” that he said pairs well with everything from eggs to pork tenderloin.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2025

“I told you we'd die before we ran out of dresses,” said Ruby, and all of her saucy bravado was gone.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Green has a toothier texture and fresher flavor; red is saucier with dusky, earthen undertones.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

It is launching improvements to its burgers including softer buns that are toasted and saucier Big Macs.

From Reuters Apr. 25, 2023

And he has also put his stamp on some shapes like a wide, two-handled rondeau and a saucier, new to Hestan’s inventory.

From New York Times Jan. 10, 2022

Garaetteok, finger-sized cylinders, are the preferred vessel in saucier dishes like tteokbokki.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2021

Never had a southern sky been more blue, never the little curling waves saucier on the Gulf.

From The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Harry A. Mathes

Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 18, 2026

June 27 Jason Isbell / Lucinda Williams Isbell is both alt-country’s sauciest Twitter wit and one of its finest, heartrending songwriters.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2021

Shirky’s was only the sauciest form of an argument I heard whenever I mentioned to my techno-utopian friends that I identified with Carr’s distress.

From Slate Aug. 16, 2018

What emerges from the churning wash of “Travesties” is one of the sweetest, sauciest and strangest defenses of art ever to land on a stage.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2018

Short, crisp black curls, adorning the sauciest little head in the world; wicked brown eyes, fairly twinkling with wickedness; a rosy little mouth, that seemed always laughing to display the little pearly teeth.

From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming




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