jaunty

We understand Paul’s fatal bravado in tenor Michael Kuhn’s jaunty recounting of a race with a rabbit that ends with him crashing his car—it’s a performance designed to deflect Norman’s offer of help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

My brothers were particularly fond of one wooden ewe mounted on wheels, which gave her the jaunty appearance of a sheep who had recently discovered skateboarding.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

An hour before the climb, I arrive at the Zimmerman Bandstand, where a troupe wearing Navy whites plays jaunty tunes.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

The practice is familiar to anyone from Glasgow, where the Duke of Wellington statue at the Gallery of Modern Art has been wearing a cone at a jaunty angle since the 1980s.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Adam’s father Cyrus was something of a devil—had always been wild—drove a two-wheeled cart too fast, and managed to make his wooden leg seem jaunty and desirable.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Hnath creates his own universe, and the design choices should reflect this wonderland quality to a jauntier degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Two portraits of composer Arnold Schoenberg depict him seated in a chair, but one is formal and mostly in shades of gray while the other is looser, jauntier and heavy on reds and pinks.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2019

Listen to the way he slips subtly from the work’s grim opening to the jauntier, waltzing second section.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017

Two Cans of Paint is jauntier, the spry finger-picking indicating that this one will be a little more wry.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2012

"It's a good deal jauntier than blue," she declared.

From Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

That “Going Shopping” is the album’s jauntiest cut — with a music video that restages Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” no less — only sharpens the critique.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The distinct period setting and sleek, angular design of the first “Incredibles,” with its Midcentury Modern home furnishings and retro-futuristic architecture, made it the jauntiest, most American of Pixar masterworks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2018

American insouciance melts Russian sanctimony in Arthur Freed’s 1957 production “Silk Stockings,” the jauntiest of Cold War movies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

He came on with a drink for the batsmen, and starting signalling an overturned review to the England fielders, all the while wearing the jauntiest of smiles.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015

In my copy of Johnson's Lives Congreve's wig is the tallest, and put on with the jauntiest air of all the laurelled worthies.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury