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Meanings of sauciness in English

Inappropriate playfulness.

        Usage of sauciness in English
        1
        But I like a little spice of sauciness; I think it takes.
        Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
        2
        She-she is innocence and simplicity itself, in spite of her roguish sauciness.
        Serapis — Volume 02
        3
        If she could only make herself heard, I should have some sauciness.
        Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2
        4
        And as married men with children we will not stand for this latest sauciness.
        A singular man
        5
        Going to Putnam, she said, with a dash of sauciness, I have succeeded, general.
        Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan...
        6
        Felitzata looked at the old man with sarcasm and sauciness gleaming in her brown eyes.
        Through Russia
        7
        This adjoineth sauciness to scurrility, and advanceth the wrong thereof into a kind of sacrilege.
        Sermons on Evil-Speaking
        8
        But there's no grit in you-that'sthe trouble; you put up with all his sauciness.
        Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
        9
        Miss Grave-airs cried, She believed her mistress would not encourage such sauciness to her betters.
        Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1
        10
        Yes, in spite of my sauciness, the old soldier evidently took to me more and more.
        The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 10
        11
        Her temper flashed out and you could see ringlets vibrating under the provocation of Sophia's sauciness.
        The Old Wives' Tale
        12
        During the period of his ascendancy she plagued him with her wanton ways, her sauciness and trickery.
        Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2
        13
        Jane E. Eddlestone, for research, enthusiasm, and "enigmatic sauciness."
        Johannes cabal the necromancer
        14
        Religion with them is not a termagant, revered for her sauciness and loved for her violent evolutions.
        Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
        15
        Esther wondered what particular form her sauciness had taken, but when Jane called softly, "Esther!"
        Up the Hill and Over
        16
        If any word in my letter should provoke you to a reply, I shall rejoice in my sauciness.
        The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18...
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        Sauciness through the time