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adjective

Saucy adj. (compar. saucier; superl. sauciest)

Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow. "Am I not protector, saucy priest?"

Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks. "We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs."

Synonyms: Impudent; insolent; impertinent; rude.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Saucy" Quotes from Famous Books

... could do no more. She had found that her little sister-in-law could be saucy, and personal squabbles, as she justly thought, had better be avoided. She could only keep Jessie from the contamination by taking her out in the carriage and to garden parties, which the young lady infinitely preferred to ...

— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

... 'Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, 'It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to ...

— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

... look at me so," said the little nurse with a saucy toss of her head. "He wouldn't bother himself about me, but—but—there is another. No, I won't tell ...

— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor

... the two finest gentlemen I've ever known—not even saving your presence," said Anne with a saucy ...

— Anne's House of Dreams • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... pale light of the midnight sun threw the shadows of the pines across the snow; I have felt the stab of lustrous eyes that, ghostlike, looked at me from out veil-covered faces in Byzantium's narrow ways, and I have laughed back (though it was wrong of me to do so) at the saucy, wanton glances of the black-eyed girls of Jedo; I have wandered where 'good'—but not too good—Haroun Alraschid crept disguised at nightfall, with his faithful Mesrour by his side; I have stood upon the bridge where Dante watched the sainted Beatrice pass by; I have floated ...

— Diary of a Pilgrimage • Jerome K. Jerome

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