he walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn't a care in the world.
Examples of saunter
saunter
One by one, the shadowy figures stand up, walk away and saunter down the street.
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Saunter through the shops, restaurants and bars to participate in special deals.
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The actors saunter into the fitting room wearing contemporary clothes and makeup.
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Saunter round the immaculate gardens, keeping your eyes peeled for the waterfall.
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Saunter in like you own the place and then hit the adorable gift shop downstairs.
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Aboard the ships of the Fleet at Pearl Harbor, life was going along at a saunter.
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The moment we accept his offer the mood changes from slow saunter to swift action.
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They all saunter, or try to, many just learning, growing into their man-walks.
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These days, you can saunter into a vacation rental as if it were your second home.
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Stroll: walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
A careless leisurely gait; "he walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn't a care in the world"
Amble: a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
Thoreau, who wrote magnificently about the pleasures of walking aimlessly through nature, insisted that saunterers were, by virtue of their mode of ambulating, not just going toward but already in the Saint Terre. A lovely idea, and not far wrong, etymologically. ...
(rhymes with, lawn ter): stroll, walk leisurely. On a Sunday afternoon when you're hanging out with your friends, you don't power walk around the neighborhood, you saunter.