jaunty

In 1938, he brought a jaunty brio to “The Adventures of Robin Hood” that forever defined the character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

Erling Haaland stood on the pitch in Dallas, a goofy grin across his face and a Viking helmet atop his head at a jaunty angle.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

She was wearing a jaunty shirtwaist, white with small red and blue semaphore flags.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

It may reenact a true story with gasp-inducing digital verisimilitude, but “The Walk” still seems like a fantasy — a throwback to an upbeat, jauntier age of filmmaking.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2015

The new Peter, unhaunted and largely conscience-free, is Indy plus Han Solo; and Guardians is a jauntier, far brattier Star Wars.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

"Let me tell you," he went on, "that my name in religion is Palamone— Fra Palamone"—here his tones became lighter, as he soared from the injured benefactor's into a jauntier suit.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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

Her hat appeared to have been constructed out of the skin of the snowy heron, with its beak and plumage preserved intact, and dressed into the jauntiest style.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various