Crossword clues for sauciness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sauciness \Sau"ci*ness\, n. The quality or state of being saucy; that which is saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence.
Your sauciness will jest upon my love.
--Shak.
Syn: Impudence; impertinence; rudeness; insolence. See Impudence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from saucy + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the property of being saucy 2 an instance of saucy behavior
WordNet
n. inappropriate playfulness [syn: impertinence, perkiness, pertness, archness]
Usage examples of "sauciness".
She now showed no trace of the vivacious sauciness which had heretofore always marked her features when she was in his presence.
Catherine supped with her brother and sister-in-law: Joseph and I joined at an unsociable meal, seasoned with reproofs on one side and sauciness on the other.
In spite of his sauciness, there was something so lovable about the little jester that Camy did not mind the embrace nearly as much as he pretended.
God guide thee, Sancho, and govern thee in thy government, and deliver me from the misgiving I have that thou wilt turn the whole island upside down, a thing I might easily prevent by explaining to the duke what thou art and telling him that all that fat little person of thine is nothing else but a sack full of proverbs and sauciness.