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sauciest

  • superlative
    of saucy.
    saucy
    adjective
    impertinent; insolent.

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Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

June 27 Jason Isbell / Lucinda Williams Isbell is both alt-country’s sauciest Twitter wit and one of its finest, heartrending songwriters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2021

Shirky’s was only the sauciest form of an argument I heard whenever I mentioned to my techno-utopian friends that I identified with Carr’s distress.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2018

What emerges from the churning wash of “Travesties” is one of the sweetest, sauciest and strangest defenses of art ever to land on a stage.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018

Vogel was the prettiest, Zimmerman the biggest and sauciest, and Zadkiel by far the wisest of the trio.

From Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various