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Recent Examples of lippy
While walking Vogue through her 16-step skin-care and makeup routine, the rising pop star shares a lippy secret.
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Jenny Berg, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
Yura picked up his bag, walked out into the vestibule, the lippy man now gone, and took his place next to three women of various ages: an old woman, a full-figured middle-aged woman, and a young girl.
—Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
Epp cross-pollinates these tragedies with those of a lippy 11-year-old girl, abandoned and stranded on her roof during the Nebraska floods of 2019.
—Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
Giles was challenged daily in practice last fall by LSU's confident, lippy secondary, led by cornerbacks Donte Jackson and Greedy Williams and safety Kevin Toliver II.
—Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 14 Mar. 2018
That was also accompanied by lippy attitude from the cabbie when challenged.
—Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
Jenny Berg, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024
Yura picked up his bag, walked out into the vestibule, the lippy man now gone, and took his place next to three women of various ages: an old woman, a full-figured middle-aged woman, and a young girl.
—Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
Epp cross-pollinates these tragedies with those of a lippy 11-year-old girl, abandoned and stranded on her roof during the Nebraska floods of 2019.
—Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
Giles was challenged daily in practice last fall by LSU's confident, lippy secondary, led by cornerbacks Donte Jackson and Greedy Williams and safety Kevin Toliver II.
—Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 14 Mar. 2018
That was also accompanied by lippy attitude from the cabbie when challenged.
—Pat Lenhoff, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lippy
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My favorite piece was the cheeky pink and green painting of a woman sticking her tongue out by one of my favorite artists, the British figurative painter Sahara Longe.Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2024
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The dial features Deadpool’s signature logo and cheeky design elements that reflect his irreverent personality, while the stainless steel case and leather strap ensure durability.Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2024
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The main leap forward is the approach to vocals, which connect rap’s penchant for melody in syncopation, Swift-pop’s flair for sassy specificity, and electronic music’s insistence that production—filters, beats, samples—is songwriting.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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KoKo’s Earth Control (1928) Imaginative, sassy, surreal and nonlinear characterize films from the Fleischer Studios, which battled the Walt Disney Co. for animation supremacy during the 1920s and ’30s, with their competing styles delighting audiences and leading to many technical advancements.Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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Jamie and Ian’s conversation is a little more saucy.Lincee Ray, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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The chain revealed that the McRib is coming back starting on Tuesday, Dec. 3, along with a saucy companion.Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Usually, those scenes focus on Bridget Everett’s Sam, whose brassy voice can punch a hole into any heart.Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
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To do so, this uses a blend of ultra-violet pigments that counteract yellow and brassy tones to ensure your color is always up to your standard in between salon appointments.Iman Balagam, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
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Chin Jinping, 61, could face anywhere between no prison time and five years behind bars as well as the possibility of losing his U.S. citizenship after admitting his role in the brazen Chinese spying scheme.John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
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Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is set to appear Thursday at an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania after Manhattan prosecutors filed a slew of new charges related to the brazen attack.Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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More specifically, the impudent Skull Kid steals the Ocarina of Time and turns Link into a Deku Scrub, those antagonistic tree cannons first introduced in Ocarina.Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016
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The officers weren't rude, angry, or insolent — as required of a battery conviction — and used their training and legal authority to do their jobs.Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024
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Her subversive and dominating personality, and sometimes insolent rhetoric in her active X presence set her apart from the likes of other female AI chatbots, such as Siri whose aim is to assist and serve.Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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The victim, who was in her late 50s, then helped push the brash young fraudster onto a new path.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Both descriptions are consistent with Grossman’s reputation as a brash, savvy negotiator.Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Lippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lippy. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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