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Recent Examples of lippy
Fortunes have been made surveying drivers about vehicle features that don't work, but there's no data on how other drivers react to lippy virtual assistants.
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Mark Phelan, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
While walking Vogue through her 16-step skin-care and makeup routine, the rising pop star shares a lippy secret.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
Yura picked up his bag, walked out into the vestibule, the lippy man now gone, and took his place next to three women of various ages: an old woman, a full-figured middle-aged woman, and a young girl.
—Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
Epp cross-pollinates these tragedies with those of a lippy 11-year-old girl, abandoned and stranded on her roof during the Nebraska floods of 2019.
—Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
Giles was challenged daily in practice last fall by LSU's confident, lippy secondary, led by cornerbacks Donte Jackson and Greedy Williams and safety Kevin Toliver II.
—Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 14 Mar. 2018
That was also accompanied by lippy attitude from the cabbie when challenged.
—Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
Mark Phelan, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
While walking Vogue through her 16-step skin-care and makeup routine, the rising pop star shares a lippy secret.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
Yura picked up his bag, walked out into the vestibule, the lippy man now gone, and took his place next to three women of various ages: an old woman, a full-figured middle-aged woman, and a young girl.
—Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
Epp cross-pollinates these tragedies with those of a lippy 11-year-old girl, abandoned and stranded on her roof during the Nebraska floods of 2019.
—Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
Giles was challenged daily in practice last fall by LSU's confident, lippy secondary, led by cornerbacks Donte Jackson and Greedy Williams and safety Kevin Toliver II.
—Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 14 Mar. 2018
That was also accompanied by lippy attitude from the cabbie when challenged.
—Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lippy
Adjective
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Drake found himself on the negative side of discourse this weekend, despite not releasing a song or making any cheeky social media posts.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
23 June 2025
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But the music mogul switched up the lyrics to both honor his wife and seemingly send a cheeky message to his former collaborator.—
Mekishana Pierre,
EW.com,
23 June 2025
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The sassy show about a haunted house in San Diego was hilarious and jump-out-of-your-seat spooky.—
Leslie Kelly,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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That wasn't strange in itself—she'd spent the morning dancing around the living room to music and was her usual energetic, sassy self.—
Christopher Hale,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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But there’s a whole world of eggplant recipes beyond that saucy Italian American headliner.—
Joe Sevier,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2025
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This week: a gutsy stand-up special from Sarah Silverman, a new installment of Fear Street, and some saucy reality TV.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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Not so for Monae, expertly backed by a brassy band whose guitarist was its lone male member.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2025
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On this Jimmy McHugh cover, her tone is brassy, and clearly influenced by rock singers — but more charming for it.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Murder by Death District Music Hall, 71 Wall St., Norwalk The Indiana indie rock band Murder by Death, which features a cello in its lineup and a lot of brazen musical ideas, is calling it quits after a quarter century.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2025
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Such perspectives make Wax’s Izzy a multi-layered and often contradictory character: self-assured, yet also self-doubting; brazen, yet guilty; fearless, yet also fearful.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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One chord appears to speak to the other, sounding almost impudent in their simplicity, equal parts ecstatic and heartbreakingly melancholic.—
Sam Davies,
Rolling Stone,
10 Mar. 2025
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In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.—
Edward P. Joseph,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Dec. 2016
Adjective
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One’s insolent, calling him lame and old, and the other affectedly infantile, but both are exhausting in their own way.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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The government, in an insolent filing on Sunday evening, rewrote that instruction.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Douglas and Trump also notably crossed paths in 2010 when the president was a famously brash New York City real estate developer and reality TV star.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
13 June 2025
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As we’re reminded — or taught — more or less immediately in the opera, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin (soprano Jasmine Habersham), brainy and brash in equal measure, was actually the first arrested for refusing to give up her seat to white bus riders, in 1955.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
7 June 2025
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“Lippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lippy. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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