mouthy
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The mouthy pool shark Minnesota Fats is given as much attention as the babushka Lyudmila Borisovna—an anti-Nazi broadcaster whom Joseph Goebbels called the witch of the Kremlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
She has described herself as "mouthy", someone who would "take no messing from management".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
So he sent director Greta Gerwig a demo with a few lines — including a deliciously mouthy lyric about “blonde fragility.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
What’s more, the mouthy display seemed to prevent contests from escalating to dangerous brawls.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Colonel Cathcart took the cigarette holder out of his mouthy stood it on end inside the pocket of his shirt, and began gnawing on the fingernails of both hands grievously.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Pazcoguin’s book is subtitled, “The Making of a Rogue Ballerina,” and she quickly establishes herself as the mouthier, hard-partying alternative to the perfumed diva stereotype.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
For their sequel, the Next Generation stalwarts will do battle with a creature even meaner and mouthier than the Borg: the McEnroe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, put him in there with the brashest and mouthiest player you can find.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 24, 2018
The mouthiest of them all typically start with the same word.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2018
I reckon they just went out on a few estates, picked the mouthiest, rudest, funniest kids they could find, put them in a classroom and told them to be themselves.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2010
But you know as well as I, Lord, he’s one of the mouthiest so and so’s that ever wore socks.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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