jaunty
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Earlier this year, a jury heard how Melotte, of Jaunty Avenue, Sheffield, shared a series of posts on social media on the day of the attack.
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2024
Jaunty music played in the background, and all around him people posed in front of #cokeplay billboards, then handed their phones over to prove they got the hashtags right to receive their prize: another advertisement.
From Washington Times • Feb. 25, 2018
Jaunty paintings of pigs cover the walls at the Pacoima taco stand Carnitas Loya, which, in case you couldn’t tell from the name alone, specializes in carnitas.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2016
Jaunty, a little vulgar, with oompah rhythms in the brass, it sounds like an intrusion from another realm, almost like something out of Nino Rota’s soundtracks for Fellini.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 30, 2015
Now she had Jaunty, though she was a little unsteady on her feet, a little unsure of her own limbs.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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