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saucy

[saw-see] / ˈsɔ si /


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This creates a built-in sauce to serve with, so all you need is jasmine rice or creamy mashed potatoes to catch the saucy goodness.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Meal one: Something saucy, a little elegant Early in the week, I like to lean into moisture — something that coaxes the chicken back to life in a way that feels intentional, not remedial.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

If I’m feeling saucy, shredded iceberg and Swiss join the party.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

In the decades that followed, extensive excavations revealed to increasingly intrigued eighteenth-century Europeans how sophisticated - and, to their consternation, how saucy - their ancient ancestors had been.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Stella Parks likes working with a stainless steel saucier, which she says has the right mix of light color and heft to ensure the milk solids don’t scorch.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022

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

True, I have enough occupation, as you may have by this time discovered, in looking after our neighbours, the Indios bravos, who, knowing the skeleton of a regiment I’ve got, are growing saucier every day.

From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

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

At 66, John Scofield remains one of jazz’s sauciest improvisers.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2018

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

Under her sauciest rattle of fun or perversity lurked some subtle meaning.

From At Last by Marion Harland




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