saucily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a saucy manner; impudently or impertinently.
Example Sentences
- "She walked off saucily and I watched, entranced, until she turned the corner; then I ran after her to ask her for a date."
- "The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily he said, “My lady fair, / Why do you stare / At poor old Mr. Joker? / You’re quite as stiff / And prim as if / You’d eaten up a poker!”"
- "'What do you want?' she called saucily from the top of the stairs."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more saucily (comparative)
most saucily (superlative)