as in wise
displaying or marked by rude boldness
sassy kids shouting, "Out of our way, you old geezer!"
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Recent Examples of sassy
Brave, stubborn — and sassy Rylan, who has undergone many surgeries and procedures over the years, including close to 10 in the last two years, received a kidney transplant from his mom just last year.
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Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
At your next brunch, swap mimosas for this classy and sassy spritzer.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
Ally Financial is getting cheeky with its latest ad campaign, and throwing shade at traditional banking with sassy signage seen in uptown Charlotte, one of the country’s biggest banking centers.
—Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
Now the dog is back to bothering her brother and showing off her sassy personality.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
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Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026
At your next brunch, swap mimosas for this classy and sassy spritzer.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
Ally Financial is getting cheeky with its latest ad campaign, and throwing shade at traditional banking with sassy signage seen in uptown Charlotte, one of the country’s biggest banking centers.
—Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
Now the dog is back to bothering her brother and showing off her sassy personality.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sassy
Adjective
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Lawmakers would be wiser to focus on AI legal matters pertaining to AI emotion detection consisting of transparency, disclosure requirements, informed consent, age restrictions, auditing, commercial exploitation, and the like.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Poonawala raised his 12-month price target to $170 per share from $150 and said investors would be wise to buy the stock now.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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The right half of the image is an architectonic jumble of patterns and bold lines, hard to parse but visually compelling.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Set the scene Sexy without being pretentious and bold without the brashness, Il Sereno is a lesson in artful restraint.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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These spaghetti cups, piled with a saucy mixture of ground turkey and broccoli, and topped with cheese, are an ideal way to use leftover spaghetti.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2026
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David Wain’s irreverent comedy is saucy, indeed.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Adley and his team make great tasting plates first and foremost, but some of the items, like the unmissable chicken wings stuffed with boudin blanc and romesco, act as a cheeky affront to haute cuisine’s pretensions and conventions.—
Colin Wrenn,
Denver Post,
3 June 2026
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The backstory The Cosmopolitan opened in 2010 as the rare new-build boutique-feeling megaresort on the Strip, leaning into art, terraces, and a deliberately cheeky brand voice to stand apart from its neighbors.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Dennis’s new poems are still conversational, philosophical, sometimes preachy, and cranky, and there is a fresh kind of transcendence here, one that has almost forgotten about disappointment.—
Craig Morgan Teicher,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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And existing stores in the state should see fresher food compared to the previous system that brought food in from Denton, Texas, and Cedar Falls, Iowa.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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His theater group the Mechanicals is preparing a stage adaptation of a 1974 French-Canadian film called Once Upon a Time in the East, in which Jimmy will play a brassy singer named Carmen — a clear indication that commercial success is not one of its top priorities.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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Pick Three Naomi Fry on great entertainment from brassy broads.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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In the show, shy Briar U music major Hannah Wells (Ella Bright) and cocky team captain Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli) begin fake-dating to try to catch the attention of Hannah’s crush.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
28 May 2026
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Because a young, cocky Assistant District Attorney, Thad Longfellow (Ward Horton) wants to oust her as the District Attorney — and is willing to throw mud in order to do it.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Mantello wasn’t being impudent.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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His first goal was pretty enough, an inch-perfect sidefoot just inside Donnarumma’s far post, but his second was a work of impudent art.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Sassy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sassy. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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