Antonyms for saucy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : saw-see

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɔ si

Definition of saucy

Origin : c.1500, "resembling sauce," later "impertinent, flippantly bold, cheeky" (1520s), from sauce (n.) + -y (2). The connecting notion is the figurative sense of "piquancy in words or actions." Cf. sauce malapert "impertinence" (1520s), and slang phrase to have eaten sauce "be abusive" (1520s). Also cf. salty in same senses.

adj disrespectful

Example sentences :

Such a saucy meekness; such a best manner; and such venom in words!
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Primrose is now almost a young lady, and, Eustace tells me, is just as saucy as ever.
Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I wonder not at Lovelace's saucy answer, saucy as it really is.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

But you know I ever was a saucy creature—ever stood in need of great allowances.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

"Not if they wait till I pass 'em," answered Tip in his prompt, saucy way.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

"It's better to be born lucky than rich," said saucy Bywater.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

But who could that saucy knave be who answered me to my beard so bravely?
Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle

And saucy to me on account of that money of hers I liquidated unknown'st.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

Turn to it at this instant, you saucy rogue, or I shall have you triced to the triangles!'
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

"If he was a girl, he would be a gump and a goose," said this saucy John.
Extract from : « St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. » by Various

Synonyms for saucy

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