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Examples of jaunty
jaunty
Philadelphia songwriter's drunken yuletide, jaunty beneath the bummed-out lyric.
From the post-gazette.com
Wearing his weariness with a jaunty and well-pressed air, he boarded the 244-ft.
From the time.com
But let's do our little dance, get on the good foot, and join Uefa's jaunty jig.
From the guardian.co.uk
At first, the jaunty stranger claims to be looking for a man who owes him money.
From the time.com
Today, it is most famous as the jaunty number that accompanies a mobile phone ad.
From the economist.com
A jaunty score from Oscar-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch punctuates the comedy.
From the voanews.com
There are some useful colour diagrams and photographs, and the prose is jaunty.
From the economist.com
Her decks brim with pristine shops and babble, burble like a jaunty airport mall.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Their slightly jaunty lightness can suggest magazine cartoons or theater props.
From the nytimes.com
- Dapper: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
- Chipper: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist"
- (jauntily) in a jaunty fashionable manner; "his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair"
- Ubuntu, an operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, makes two releases every year, using the year and month of the release as a version number. The first Ubuntu release, for example, was Ubuntu 4.10 and was released on 20 October 2004. ...
- Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner; Dapper or stylish; Ostentatiously self-confident
- Means very upbeat, happy, and good-looking. What's the word?
- An Irishman of noticeably short stature, Januty was ritually sacrificed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nettie claimed him after death and now Jaunty serves her in both realms. ...
