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Definition of Sassiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sassiness
| sastruga |
Literary usage of Sassiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Fifty Years in the Navy by Charles Edgar Clark (1917)
"... I went off to pay my respects, it was with a good deal of the feeling of the
small boy who has been detected in some "sassiness" towards his elders. ..."
2. Rambles in the Rocky Mountains: With a Visit to the Gold Fields of Colorado by Maurice O'Connor Morris (1864)
"We were rather amused to hear the stories of the sassiness of the Indians, since
the outbreak of the war; of their throwing themselves in their red blankets ..."
3. Selected Articles on the Negro Problem by Julia Emily Johnsen (1921)
"If sometimes he is "sassy," let us remember that the "sassy" Negro is a green
persimmon; he will ripen after awhile, when he has learned that "sassiness" ..."
4. Letters of James Gibbons Huneker by James Huneker (1922)
"It's positively|"sassy," and I admire "sassiness" in a good- looking girl—which
she is. But, oh ! your Chicago folk I They are so true, so awful, ..."
5. The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: Containing the Best Prose and Poetic by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Leslie Pinckney Hill (1920)
"... sassiness was pas' all stan'in', too; (An' den de hens was watchin' fer to
see der fightin' fru. ..."
6. The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: Containing the Best Prose and Poetic by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Leslie Pinckney Hill (1920)
"... sassiness was pas' all stan'in', too; (An' den de hens was watchin' fer to
see der fightin' fru. ..."
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