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sauciness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sauciness has 1 sense
- sauciness(n = noun.attribute) archness, impertinence, perkiness, pertness - inappropriate playfulness; Array is a kind of fun, playfulness
Derived form adjective saucy2
CIDE DICTIONARY
sauciness, n.
The quality or state of being saucy; that which is saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence. [1913 Webster]
"Your sauciness will jest upon my love."
[1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Impudence; impertinence; rudeness; insolence. See Impudence.
ROGET THESAURUS
sauciness
Insolence
N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).
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