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Answer for the clue "With brass ", 7 letters:
saucily

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Word definitions for saucily in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a saucy manner.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a perky manner; "stuck perkily, like a bustle on a woman's skirt" [syn: perkily ] in an impudent or impertinent manner; "a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently" [syn: impertinently , pertly , freshly , impudently ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s; see saucy + -ly (2).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saucily \Sau"ci*ly\, adv. In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness. --Addison.

Usage examples of saucily.

This to a pretty head with raven hair, that popped saucily in, and as saucily withdrew.

She looked at him over her shoulder, tossed her hair to one side as a mare might her mane, arched her bottom saucily, then spread her thighs.

Would she gasp in shock and indignation, or smile saucily and dare him to join her?

She beckoned to him saucily with her forefinger, breathed his name through seductive lips, and watched him come to her.

Bryson slipped his right hand around to the bolstered pistol, but just then he saw Elena Petrescu saunter around the back of the truck, one hand placed saucily on her left hip.

He sat on a twig just across the brook, cocking his head at me, and saucily wagging his tail.

Polyxigis now put on his big fez, tilted it to one side so that its tassel fell saucily over his left shoulder, and set out on his way, striding from stone to stone, to the good barber Paraskevas.

She led him farther back under the trees, again smiling saucily back at him.

Bab, saucily, while her sparkling eyes turned to Miss Celia with a mischievous twinkle in them.

She turned and left, her pert bottom in its snug black skirt swaying with every step, her blond hair swinging saucily about her shoulders.

Jessica accepted that without difficulty and smiled saucily at Marino.

Francis Tanaguchi came to dislike Daphne Simon who was in some exotic way giving him a blue veiner by squeezing his hand saucily before she slammed it down on the wooden armrest between the seats.

There was a little shriek of discomfiture as they suddenly perceived the young lord of the day, but the Contessa Beata Tagliapietra came saucily toward him as he was escaping.

Curling with an intricate aimlessness curiously like that of such a streamer, it tantalized the silvery fingers of a thousand relays, saucily evaded the glances of ten thousand electric eyes, impishly darted down a narrow black alleyway of memory banks, and, reaching the center of the cube, suddenly emerged into a small room where a suave fat man in shorts sat drinking beer.

It Was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had come from Charleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butler had run the blockade.