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单词 sassy
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Definition of sassy in English:

sassy

adjectivesassiest, sassier ˈsasiˈsæsi
informal
  • Lively, bold, and full of spirit; cheeky.

    Toni was smart and sassy and liked to pretend she was a hard nut
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was career-orientated, she was smart, she was sassy and confident.
    • In other words this is sassy, bold, sophisticated cooking.
    • It has a cutting-edge modernity and sassy, youthful energy.
    • She was smart, cute, sassy, and I fell for her fast - a once in a lifetime whirlwind romance, you know?
    • It's funny, it's smart, it's endearing and it's a little sassy too.
    • Hazel is an English rose who is graceful, elegant and sassy.
    • She manages a brash, confident, and sassy manner that works well in the part, but is not overdone to the point of being unwelcome.
    • Toni, her best friend, was smart and sassy, liked to pretend she was a hard nut, though underneath it all, she was a hopeless romantic.
    • Taureans can be as wild and sassy, bad and brilliant, fast and smart as anyone when they care to.
    • With a smart, sassy script and a winning lead performance, the film is virtually impossible to dislike.
    • Pop songs sung by female teen vocalists became associated with sassy dance moves and flashy midriffs.
    • The film is smart, sassy, and thoroughly enjoyable, and features one of the most endearing and believable characters to grace the screen this year.
    • I think you'll really like this girl - she's smart, sophisticated, and sassy - but not too sassy.
    • Smart and sassy becomes smarmy and crass at the touch of the middlebrow.
    • She was smart, sassy and beautiful - and there has never been a voice to equal hers on the pop music scene.
    • Here we have a mother and daughter duo with tight clothes and sassy attitudes who are forever searching for men.
    • This pig-tailed cutie grew up to be a sassy, soul-singing beauty.
    • She took a few sassy steps forward and then stopped in the middle of the space between them all.
    • The sets and atmosphere are dingy, with performers dressed in jeans and sneakers and leather jackets, and conveying a sassy, modern manner in their characters' persona.
    • Her vocals are alternately sassy, playful and scolding, though they always retain a composure that makes them more detached than outrightly emotional.
    Synonyms
    impudent, impertinent, insolent, presumptuous, forward, pert, bold, bold as brass, brazen, brazen-faced, shameless, audacious, overfamiliar, irreverent, discourteous, disrespectful, insubordinate, impolite, bad-mannered, ill-mannered, unmannerly, mannerless, rude, insulting

Derivatives

  • sassily

  • adverb
    informal
    • ‘I'm trying to be lady-like and not stuff my face like you heathens,’ I replied sassily.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She just flipped her long blonde curls sassily and flirted her ocean blue eyes, which were framed by long, mascaraed eyelashes.
      • ‘It's like everywhere else: certain kinds of music become fashionable, so everybody goes out and buys it,’ she remarks sassily.
      • Only Clair was in the room, standing in front of me, her arms folded sassily, her cold, brown eyes narrowed at me.
      • She kept on talking at me about something I had done wrong, and I spoke up sassily.
  • sassiness

  • noun
    informal
    • I've learnt a lot from it, for example my posture is better and I walk with some sassiness in my step!
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was a freshness and sassiness to the production - a sense that the film-makers were thumbing their noses at serious action movies by juicing up the admittedly silly premise of a '70s girl-power TV show.
      • Every now and then you still get a glimpse of the old frontier sassiness.
      • They are only in their 20s and there's a freshness and sassiness in their art.
      • I guess I want to see less sassiness and more good art, which they are thankfully in the business of making.

Origin

Mid 19th century: variant of saucy.

Rhymes

bassi, Brassey, brassie, chassis, gassy, Haile Selassie, lassie, Malagasy, Manasseh, massé, massy, Tallahassee
 
 

Definition of sassy in US English:

sassy

adjectiveˈsasēˈsæsi
informal
  • Lively, bold, and full of spirit; cheeky.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She manages a brash, confident, and sassy manner that works well in the part, but is not overdone to the point of being unwelcome.
    • Taureans can be as wild and sassy, bad and brilliant, fast and smart as anyone when they care to.
    • Her vocals are alternately sassy, playful and scolding, though they always retain a composure that makes them more detached than outrightly emotional.
    • She was smart, sassy and beautiful - and there has never been a voice to equal hers on the pop music scene.
    • The sets and atmosphere are dingy, with performers dressed in jeans and sneakers and leather jackets, and conveying a sassy, modern manner in their characters' persona.
    • With a smart, sassy script and a winning lead performance, the film is virtually impossible to dislike.
    • It has a cutting-edge modernity and sassy, youthful energy.
    • Toni, her best friend, was smart and sassy, liked to pretend she was a hard nut, though underneath it all, she was a hopeless romantic.
    • I think you'll really like this girl - she's smart, sophisticated, and sassy - but not too sassy.
    • Hazel is an English rose who is graceful, elegant and sassy.
    • It's funny, it's smart, it's endearing and it's a little sassy too.
    • In other words this is sassy, bold, sophisticated cooking.
    • Smart and sassy becomes smarmy and crass at the touch of the middlebrow.
    • She was career-orientated, she was smart, she was sassy and confident.
    • The film is smart, sassy, and thoroughly enjoyable, and features one of the most endearing and believable characters to grace the screen this year.
    • She was smart, cute, sassy, and I fell for her fast - a once in a lifetime whirlwind romance, you know?
    • Pop songs sung by female teen vocalists became associated with sassy dance moves and flashy midriffs.
    • She took a few sassy steps forward and then stopped in the middle of the space between them all.
    • This pig-tailed cutie grew up to be a sassy, soul-singing beauty.
    • Here we have a mother and daughter duo with tight clothes and sassy attitudes who are forever searching for men.
    Synonyms
    impudent, impertinent, insolent, presumptuous, forward, pert, bold, bold as brass, brazen, brazen-faced, shameless, audacious, overfamiliar, irreverent, discourteous, disrespectful, insubordinate, impolite, bad-mannered, ill-mannered, unmannerly, mannerless, rude, insulting

Origin

Mid 19th century: variant of saucy.

 
 
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