jaunty
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It was a citrus-spiked cola in a jaunty blue can.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
Indeed he was, as evident by the jaunty white beret he’d worn for the occasion, which quickly went viral on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The jaunty wool cap pulled over her honey-brown hair may be her nod to both the cold winter weather and more conservative ways.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
A jaunty sequence was needed, and my fingers took up the keys.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
If we felt just a trifle jauntier on Tuesday, we might not have considered citing its dew points.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
To the rear is the stylishly poised Miramar restaurant and on one side the jauntier hotel Belle-Vue, with its tiny, busy balcony restaurant poking out on the first floor.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2013
His new film, the 12th written by Paul Laverty, has a jauntier tone.
From Time ● May 27, 2012
On her head was a jaunty swimming cap no jauntier than herself when she urged the ten minutes in place of five.
From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
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
His goatee was at its jauntiest, most confident angle.
From Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses by Dwight V. Swain
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