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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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Marissa wore a cheeky two-piece astronaut Halloween costume with fishnet stockings, while her new man rested his hand on her lower back.Angel Saunders, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The actor turned out to be playing a man named Ralph Bohner in what was ultimately a cheeky casting decision.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
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So put on your spooky, sweet or sassy costume and enjoy the day.Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Jordan Armstrong The strong, motivated and sassy business woman, who has an unfinished connection with Harper from college.Okla Jones, Essence, 22 Oct. 2024
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First, a couple of recipes that start with searing pork chops before finishing them in a more saucy liquid environment.Bon Appétit, Bon Appétit, 30 Oct. 2024
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Mitzi Gaynor, the leggy entertainer whose saucy vitality and blond beauty graced the big screen in South Pacific and on Las Vegas stages and in spectacular TV specials, has died.Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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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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Oh, and purple toothpaste — based on the same color theory concept that violet neutralizes yellowish, brassy tones — is becoming a thing.Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2024
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In Biden’s tenure, U.S. adversaries have grown increasingly brazen in their provocations and ramped up cooperation with each other.Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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The rise of brazen, unlicensed marijuana sellers is a relatively new phenomenon, probably driven in part by growing public acceptance of marijuana and the relatively easy access to pot being cultivated for legal sale in dozens of states.Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 4 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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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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Bullock’s John Hotham is forced to manage an uprising of rogue military personal and armed insurgents on a semi-fictional January 6, 2025 that makes the real-life January 6, 2021 seem like insolent child’s play.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 June 2024
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After public outrage quashed a brash attempt by Congress to increase member pay by 51% in early 1989, a more modest hike of 10% was passed through The Ethics Reform Act of 1989, signed into law by President George Bush on Nov. 30, 1989.Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Pay gains have slowed considerably since March 2022, a reflection of a rebalancing of supply and demand in the labor market following the pandemic as well as the impacts from the Federal Reserve’s brash increase in interest rates to rein in high inflation.Alicia Wallace, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Lippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lippy. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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