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Examples
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Fortarigoes in his custody; angerly answered; Thou sawcy companion, what have I to doe with thy Doublet?
The Decameron 2004
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[13] Forster reads, “all oo sawcy Ppt can say oo may see me”; but the words are illegible.
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His sawcy, insolent Tongue is well known to me, but I had rather he should indulge it to me than to you.
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-- It was very sawcy to disturb you, very sawcy Im sure &c.
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Must a heedless sawcy Coxcomb frown, or tread upon a Gentleman's Toes with Impunity?
The Theater (1720) Sir John Falstaffe
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_ Sir, I shall make a Servant shew you out at the Window if you are sawcy.
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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He snaps you up bitterly, because he will be offended, and tells you, you are sawcy and troublesome, and sometimes takes your money in this language.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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He was a Person of great and universal Civility, but yet with that Restriction as that it forbad any to be bold or sawcy with him; though with those whom he affected, which were Lovers of
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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How long must a Man so injur'd lie bleeding before the Pain and Anguish of his Fame (if it suffers wrongfully) can be dispell'd? or say he had deserv'd Reproof and publick Accusation, yet the Weight and Greatness of his Office never can deserve it from a publick Stage, where the lowest Malice by sawcy Parallels and abusive Inuendoes may do every thing but name him: But alas!
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These Fishing-Hawks, in more plentiful Seasons, will catch a Fish, and loiter about with it in the Air, on purpose to have a Chace with an Eagle; and when he does not appear soon enough, the Hawk will make a sawcy Noise, and insolently defie him.
The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
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