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Synonyms & Antonyms of sauce
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disrespectful or argumentative talk given in response to a command or request
- if you put up with any sauce from them, they'll only get worse
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shameless boldness
- the woman was shocked by the sauce of the child who ran right up to her and asked for money
Synonyms for sauce
- audaciousness,
- audacity,
- brashness,
- brass,
- brassiness,
- brazenness,
- cheek,
- cheekiness,
- chutzpah
- (also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa),
- crust,
- effrontery,
- face,
- gall,
- nerve,
- nerviness,
- pertness,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- sauciness,
- temerity
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slang
a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk
- as soon as she returned home from the graveyard shift, she'd be hitting the sauce
Synonyms for sauce
- alcohol,
- aqua vitae,
- ardent spirits,
- booze,
- bottle,
- drink,
- firewater,
- grog,
- hooch
- [slang],
- inebriant,
- intoxicant,
- John Barleycorn,
- juice
- [slang],
- liquor,
- lush
- [slang],
- moonshine,
- potable,
- rum,
- spirits,
- stimulant,
- strong drink,
- tipple
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Antonyms for sauce
- nonintoxicant
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The first known use of sauce was in the 14th century
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