What's the difference between cheeky and saucy?

Cheeky


Definition:

  • () a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Magnussen performed a cheeky pass on Hulkenberg before they reached the second safety line, controversial.
  • (2) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
  • (3) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
  • (4) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
  • (5) 'He’s still a cheeky little sod, but he’s definitely a nicer boy' … Allan and Michelle Darwin with their son Zane.
  • (6) However, give or take the odd cheeky top-up, here I am in the one-glass-of-wine-a-night zone.
  • (7) (Plus, he was still willing to play the cheeky bad boy, criticising Sainsbury's stance on chicken, and only apologising to the company once he had got his message across.)
  • (8) It was a cheeky thing to say since "misuse" is a loaded term.
  • (9) John Oliver's cheeky net neutrality plea crashes FCC website Read more Spurred on by online activists including Fight for the Future , a six-person team that has managed to coordinate protests with people and companies including Reddit, Netflix, Mozilla and PornHub, people have now submitted more than four million comments on the FCC proposals.
  • (10) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
  • (11) His assertion in interviews that the borrowing rate is 8.9% to 14.9% is also a little bit cheeky.
  • (12) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
  • (13) Yeah, ha ha, the cheeky peaky blinders are leeching an extra grand and a half out of buyers just for accepting their offer on a property.
  • (14) "Or is he off being cheeky and cheerful (but ineffective) somewhere else?
  • (15) The Brighton Pavilion seat is the Green party's best shot at a parliamentary seat in 2010 and it has draped the seafront in cheeky slogans promoting its candidate.
  • (16) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
  • (17) What makes cheeky Salmond think an independent Scotland would be allowed to use the pound, or enter the EU, or be admitted to Nato?
  • (18) Andrew is an extrovert, a cheerful lovely soul, a cheeky guy,” says Morrissey.
  • (19) I remember those children when we first met them, and they were so bubbly, and so vibrant and cheeky and funny and just over time how their personality would change,” Reen said.
  • (20) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.

Saucy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow.
  • (superl.) Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The woman said she had found a mobile phone containing "scores, maybe hundreds of saucy texts from a married celebrity" and then read the texts down the phone.
  • (2) Dressed in saris, the hijras gave an air-steward style demonstration of how to wear the belt while directing saucy, suggestive remarks at the drivers watching them.
  • (3) The group were the centre of controversy when their saucy "butt dance" for How Dare You was banned on South Korean TV.
  • (4) The ref blows for a free kick, but doesn't book the saucy bugger.
  • (5) It was also, crucially, the first step in the shift away from the Winehouse of common caricature, the Olive Oyl figure with the beehive, and the drug abuse, the saucy mouth and the baleful talk of "Blake Incarcerated"; the artist people had sadly come to expect – who had once offered to lamp a member of the audience at Glastonbury, and who had last graced a stage at a festival in Serbia, where she stood swaying and mumbling before a baying audience of 20,000.
  • (6) As erudite as he was rude, Kenneth Williams is now remembered as the author of a bleak and illuminating diary and not just for his saucy anecdotes and Carry On films.
  • (7) When they're not 7ft-tall high-heeled dominatrix killers, women in games tend to be saucy background-dressing or yelping damsels in distress.
  • (8) Minaj earns a few extra points for promoting a variety of body types, having a sense of humour and subverting a saucy “whipped cream on breasts” sequence into one where she slices a banana into pieces (yes, men, that moment is meant to make you worry about your penises).
  • (9) Just think of the hoardings: feisty women with attitude, sporting magnificent fingernails and vaguely dressed as St Mary Magdalene, are seen tearing at Pontius Pilate’s face – someone like Nigel Havers, looking saucy.” Christ’s Jerusalem Monopoly “My kids have a Star Wars one,” the permanent secretary tells a minister irritably.
  • (10) Don't read on if you haven't seen episode four Catch up with Paul MacInnes's episode three blog here Episode four: To Have and To Hold 'Harry has great ideas' – Scarlett First we must deal with the consequences of ketchup: of being crushed by the King Kong of condiments, of saucy dreams that go splat.
  • (11) Donald McGill spent a lifetime stirring up scandal in the coastal tearooms of 20th-century Britain with his saucy postcards.
  • (12) What I need is a saucy little German full-back-alike to get over it.
  • (13) It could be a long, saucy lunch.” Mike Myers jumped on stage to offer himself as a lunch date following the bid for Cooper and Lauer, and his was auctioned for $50,000.
  • (14) 27 min: Juninho tries to score a free kick from wide right, 35 yards out, the saucy bugger.
  • (15) • visitblackpool.com Vintage events , Margate, Kent Margate is a riot of kitsch and somewhat saucy seaside shenanigans.
  • (16) His wishes were fulfilled as the industry prudently moved away from the sombre neo-realism of the immediate postwar years towards mildly saucy comedies and the sub-De Mille-style epics, set in antiquity with their cast of thousands of buxom Roman ladies.
  • (17) I even work out on occasion, if I’m feeling particularly saucy.
  • (18) • Ayuntamiento 21, a few blocks south of the Alameda, Centro, open daily, 8am-10pm Tacos de guisados: Taquería El Guero (Hola) Guisados are saucy stews with a thousand variations.
  • (19) I can feel pretty peaceful doing other things as well,” he says, with what I think might be a saucy look.
  • (20) So make what sense you can of the vast menu, lavish with photos, or go for the steamed carp (£8) or tilapia (£9) with ginger; a pile of noodles ( massas ) with beef, pork, prawns or mixed seafood ( carne, lombo, camerão or fruto do mar, £7); or a huge platter of spicy, saucy squid ( lula com molho , £10.50).