jauntiness
IPA: dʒˈɔntinʌs
noun
- The quality of being jaunty.
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Examples of "jauntiness" in Sentences
- I do, however, take issue with the 'jauntiness' claim.
- “Daz has been fabulous,” she offered, a false jauntiness in her voice.
- Both the press and the public are seduced by jauntiness -- it is a very likeable trait.
- He wore them absolutely without inflection or style, with none of the jauntiness that usually comes with long practice.
- Eileen's characteristic amalgam of irony and jauntiness is very difficult to separate out, but the air of exasperation is undisguised.
- The female reader, on the other hand, will hate the jauntiness, the teasing smile implicit in “I weep a tiny bit,” more than anything; it is better to be opposed in earnest.
- I think one of their keys to success was an overall attitude of blithe, confident good humour which could be describe as "jauntiness" -- FDR was "jaunty" as was Clinton, Ike, Reagan and JFK (in a somewhat patrician way).
- People who aren't graphics professionals or who don't have a particularly developed aesthetic choose Comic Sans so often simply because it looks more like handwriting than other typefaces, unaware that the "jauntiness" of the face is inappropriate in many typographical situations.
- N.Y. Times columnist Maureen Dowd notes that "only a week ago, Fred Hiatt, the written that President Obama did not seem happy in his job, that he projected 'weariness and duty' instead of the 'jauntiness' of F.D.R. and J.F.K." But Tuesday, when the health-reform bill was signed, 'the president was joyous, and that infectious smile so sparsely offered over the last two years lit up the East Room.