jaunty
IPA: dʒˈɔnti
noun
- (nautical) A master-at-arms onboard a Royal Navy ship
- A traditional nickname for a Royal Navy master-at-arms
adjective
- Airy; showy; finical.
- (by extension) Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
- Dapper or stylish.
- Ostentatiously self-confident.
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Examples of "jaunty" in Sentences
- You may recall the jaunty ceramic pots from the last trip to H&G.
- He had tied a kerchief around his neck in a way that could only be described as jaunty.
- The young puppets in jaunty swimming trunks, although they magically execute flashy dives and swim through air, are, if anything, more poignant still.
- Holly and I hung out at the SFWA suite for awhile, where I somehow got talked into promising to knit Jeremy Lassen a "jaunty" scarf to go with his zoot suit convention looks.
- He tries TOO hard to look GQ - laughable how he ALWAYS throws his suit jacket over a shoulder for just that "jaunty" look when in fact he grew up as a gangbanger, it's so unnatural.
- The German women -- bronzed, buxom lasses, for the most part, in jaunty hats and feathers -- look very sharp after their young men, interfering sadly between them and the insinuating sergeants.
- It’s the story of a man-eating plant that eventually takes over the world, told in jaunty 1960s-style doo-wop, written by a little-known team called Ashman and Mencken who would eventually fade into obscurity after producing little-known Disney musicals like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
- And after the sergeant has read aloud an official declaration under the Official Secrets Act, and each one of them has separately signed an impressive form, Amory calls a jaunty Also los, bitte, meine Herren! across the hangar to a squad of policemen in dungarees who promptly lay their ladders against the British Leyland bus and swarm onto the roof, barking orders at each other until, with infinite circumspection, the backdrop is laid like a precious archaeological find on the concrete floor, and unrolled.
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