mouthy
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"Centre stage we have Saraya, who is this mouthy, irreverent outsider, complicated, flawed, and it's her journey of realising all those attributes are the things that make her really special," Cooper said.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
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
On this day, they’re also watching Harmony’s dog, Dragon, a mouthy attention-seeker who interrupts our conversation multiple times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
Likewise the talented comedian Sophie Zucker, who makes the most of her too-brief appearances as Jamie’s mouthy hometown nemesis.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
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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