saucily
- r in an impudent or impertinent manner
- The first mistress is old and irrelevant; the second is ingratiating, lethal, with "a Buddha's face and a scorpion's heart"; the third a saucily imperious opera singer.
- Giuliani continued to amuse himself and the hall as he played up Obama's celebrity and purported elitism, knocked down the senator's professional story, and saucily flung back the .
- The young girls' faces were pert, their clothes chic, their hair saucily teased.