英:['sɒsɪnɪs]
美:['sɒsɪnɪs]
英:['sɒsɪnɪs]
美:['sɒsɪnɪs]
词根:saucy
adj.saucy 漂亮的;活泼的;莽撞的;俏丽的
adv.saucily 莽撞地;傲慢地;别致地;调皮地
adjective
served with or having the consistency of sauce
impertinently bold and impudent
amusingly forward and flippant : irrepressible
smart, trim
a saucy little hat
"无礼的性格; 无礼的言行",来自1540年代的 saucy 和 -ness。曾经(1550年代)作为 sauceliness。
The first known use of saucy was in 1508
sauerbratennoun
beef soaked in vinegar and seasonings before being roasted
saucyadjective
marked by bold rudeness or disrespect : impudent a saucy answer
a saucy child
smart entry 2 sense 6a, trim
a saucy little hat
saucyadjective
marked by bold rudeness or disrespect : impudent a saucy answer
a saucy child
smart entry 2 sense 6a, trim
a saucy little hat
1 Mr. Vincott rebuked her at some length for her sauciness, and would have prolonged his lecture yet further, but that my impatience mastered me and I haled him from the room.
2 Emma felt they were friends again; and the conviction giving her at first great satisfaction, and then a little sauciness, she could not help saying, as he was admiring the baby,
3 “Thank you or not, as the case may be,” Barney Frank, a frequent critic of Sanders, snarked in response to this sauciness from Sanders supporters.
4 Five shopboys, or scouts' boys, full of sauciness, loitering at an out-of-the-way street corner.
5 Her new show tackles issues such as anxiety, grief, love, loss and regret, "with a bit of sauciness thrown in for the dads".
6 But I must take this sauciness out of thee.
7 The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.
8 There is no extra sauciness about her, though she is on excellent terms with herself, and although she doesn’t sail impudently close to the wind, still I say she behaves herself gallantly and well.”
9 Impertinence and impudence may be gross and stupid; pertness and sauciness are always vivid and keen.
10 Playwright Richard Bean updates the action to 1963, and Nicholas Hytner directs the piece to look like a “Carry On” film, complete with bright colors, wild wigs and plenty of sauciness.
11 But don't notice it further: I wished to punish her sauciness, that's all.
可是不要再注意这事了。我只想惩罚她的无耻而已。
12 There wasn’t, really, a trace of sauciness about the dear, old rumble-tumble of a ship.
13 He laughed at this flash, and took instant tribute of the lips whose sauciness tempted him.
14 I am sick of his sauciness.
我讨厌他的鲁莽。
15 The attitude of the Insular Government permits the native press much latitude of “sauciness,” in deference to the American idea about liberty of the press.
16 Scold her, and you got an answer back that made you love the creature for her very sauciness.
17 I ran away––closed my door upon this wretched behavior, but could not shut its ghastly sauciness and treachery from the chambers of my memory.
18 Opening with versions of recent Girl album tracks given heft by wads of synthetic strings, he shows off his new-school persona: winking sauciness and wedding-band funk.
19 Ms. Wilson projected a rare combination of elegance and earthiness, sauciness and allure.
20 Oswald, as the son of the host, and also for his bright, joyous, frolicsome nature; and Valentine, for his beauty, wit, and piquant sauciness.
1 粗鲁
rough harsh ignorant sultry impolite snotty uncouth gauche immodest coarse-grained discourteous ungentle uncourteous unhandsome clodhopping cloddish chuffy roughly rudely brusquely saucily boorishly surlily roughness rudeness coarseness incivility surliness crudeness brusqueness boorishness brusquerie