Adjective, : to walk with a jaunty step. ,a jaunty hat. From Dictionary.com.
I do, however, take issue with the 'jauntiness' claim. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Each hat has it's particular style and jauntiness. From Wordnik.com. [[hats] don't leave home without one] Reference
With surprising jauntiness Polly Beale saluted Dundee. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
He entered with a swing, a certain jauntiness -- a dash of. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Her jauntiness and cackling merriment were really wonderful. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
And then with a jauntiness remarkable under the circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
“Bull Scalzi” has a certain nautical jauntiness to it, no?. From Wordnik.com. [What to Call Me « Whatever] Reference
The jauntiness and confidence crept back into the Major's voice. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Gold]
I eyed him warily, mistrusting the sudden jauntiness of his manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
She moved her head and shoulders now with the jauntiness of a boxer. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
They had stopped laughing and no longer made any pretence at jauntiness. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
A few, though, still somehow kept the jauntiness that marked their kind. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
He moved with a nervous jauntiness, and looked about him with a vacant smile. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
Some of his jauntiness returned, but subdued to a really quite charming level. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
They strode slowly up the corridor, the familiar jauntiness absent from their step. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
With unnecessary jauntiness he chuckled, “Some nice flannels, them samples, heh?”. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
In appearance he is small, soldierly, and graying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
Both the press and the public are seduced by jauntiness -- it is a very likeable trait. From Wordnik.com. [Updated: My mothers review of the State of the Union Address] Reference
A clear, hard line lends "Drummer at Montfermeil" an air of slightly aggrieved jauntiness. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Seurat We Think We Know] Reference
"Now then, Inman," he said, with a poor attempt at jauntiness, "score off that if you can.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference
The very jauntiness I used to love as a girl feels as if it's covering up a sadder subtext. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Music Archives] Reference
His solemnity seems just as authentic as the jauntiness it banishes, which is saying a lot. From Wordnik.com. [Dark] Reference
‘Good-bye’ with a jauntiness which deceived no one; and the car slid away from the dock. From Wordnik.com. [Over the River] Reference
His painting will impress upon you the importance of care while he jauntiness cries with passion. From Wordnik.com. [Black Sabbath Gets Medieval] Reference
They were tall, straight, slim, proud, and graceful, and they strutted about with cool jauntiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
In his eyes there is a perpetual glint of humour, and in the poise of his head a certain irrepressible jauntiness. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
There was a certain jauntiness about Kitty which became her, where in almost any one else it might have seemed outrageous. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
This version of same song Prine just sang, "Spanish Pipedream," is rendered with an excessive jauntiness by the Avett Brothers. From Wordnik.com. [John Prine: Midwestern Mind Trips To The Nth Degree] Reference
The others nearby were busy doing the same thing, but few of them set about it with the air of cocky jauntiness that Hawkes wore. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
His rough woolen suit, leather-lined, hung loosely on him, but he wore it with a jauntiness that matched the bravado of his song. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
His twisty smile, debonair charm and twinge of self-effacement bring a much-needed jauntiness to an otherwise buttoned-down production. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Of The Party] Reference
Her partner was a very great man indeed, both in South African and English politics, and it was a feather of no small jauntiness in Marice. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
There was no attempt at jauntiness; they all realized now. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
The jauntiness of the brassy notes ringing up through the silence was agony to him. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
Not that you'd know from the tone, which rings hollow despite an overbearing jauntiness. From Wordnik.com. [Musicrooms.net] Reference
And, Nathaniel Chapman, there's a jauntiness in your manner of singing which is not quite becoming. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
He had rather an indiarubber-like elasticity and jauntiness than stateliness, or dignity, or grace. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference
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