as in wise
displaying or marked by rude boldness
a cheeky comment about something that was none of her business
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Recent Examples of cheeky
Its cheeky, fairytale-like façade hinted at the creative interiors within: an ebullient blue bedroom clad in Folies Bergère wallpaper, a bespoke kitchen with a deep red-and-white checkerboard motif, a thick-stripe-walled dining room with a larger-than-life dried floral installation.
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Katherine Burns Olson, Architectural Digest, 27 Nov. 2024
Steven Galanis, co-founder and CEO, turned the idea of personalized celebrity messages into a platform, where fans can request anything from birthday wishes to a cheeky roast.
—Harry Booth, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
The sweeping biopic charts the rise of the pop star, from his days as a cheeky 8-year-old in a working-class U.K. town to his battles with the usual pitfalls of fame and money.
—Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
The new clip — gloriously narrated with cheeky bravado by Alan Cumming — finds Hilton and Richie doing a bit of their old Simple Life shtick, picking up odd jobs like a shift at Sonic or serving as guides on a Hollywood tour bus.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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Katherine Burns Olson, Architectural Digest, 27 Nov. 2024
Steven Galanis, co-founder and CEO, turned the idea of personalized celebrity messages into a platform, where fans can request anything from birthday wishes to a cheeky roast.
—Harry Booth, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
The sweeping biopic charts the rise of the pop star, from his days as a cheeky 8-year-old in a working-class U.K. town to his battles with the usual pitfalls of fame and money.
—Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
The new clip — gloriously narrated with cheeky bravado by Alan Cumming — finds Hilton and Richie doing a bit of their old Simple Life shtick, picking up odd jobs like a shift at Sonic or serving as guides on a Hollywood tour bus.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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While most ski down the mountain when ready to leave, my friends and I took a gondola, which was the easier and wiser choice after a few margaritas.Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024
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Brimming with humor and heart-tugging emotion, this wise and wistful masterpiece is also one of the most visually stunning shows to hit New York in ages.Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Roberto Cavalli Roberto Cavalli, founder of the eponymous Italian fashion house and whose bold and intricate designs were worn by Taylor Swift, Madonna, Beyoncé and other A-listers, died in April at 83.Bryan Alexander, The Courier-Journal, 1 Jan. 2025
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Now, amid increasingly bold Houthi attacks on Israel itself, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to open a new front against the Yemeni group, which experts say has received weapons, funding and military know-how from Iran.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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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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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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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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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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Pour Club Soda Thanks to the carbonation found in club soda, it's deemed to be another handy cleaning tool to remove fresh red wine from a variety of surfaces.Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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Now, red underwear for New Year’s Eve is a common ritual; they are often worn inside out and put on the right way after midnight, or thrown out entirely after midnight, signaling a fresh start mentality for the year ahead.Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 21 Dec. 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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That this once-relevant scoundrel's fall from something like grace uplifts so many is a testament to the joy to be found in seeing a cocky operator get his overdue comeuppance.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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What’s a cocky teenage boy to an English teacher in middle life and his rueful wife?Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Cheeky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheeky. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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