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
One moment the music envelops us in a mysterious hush and then it is downright jaunty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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
If we felt just a trifle jauntier on Tuesday, we might not have considered citing its dew points.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
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
His new film, the 12th written by Paul Laverty, has a jauntier tone.
From Time ● May 27, 2012
Van Dusen, that very shrewd detective, observed that the old man trod with a jauntier step than heretofore, and that his expression was one of smug complacency.
From When the Cock Crows by Waldron Baily
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
On the pitch at least, Euro 2012 has been the jauntiest of tournaments so far and we could be in for a cracker tonight too.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
Gwen went to school next morning in the jauntiest of spirits.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Stanley Davis
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