Crossword clues for jauntily
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jauntily \Jaun"ti*ly\, adv. In a jaunty manner.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In an airy, showy, or affected manner. 2 In a dapper or stylish manner. 3 In an ostentatiously self-confident manner.
WordNet
adv. in a jaunty fashionable manner; "his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair"
Usage examples of "jauntily".
Russian bounced jauntily out of the caravan, Tram Bir let out an incredulous gasp.
His flowing unstarched shirt was as usual spotless, he wore a flower in the ribbon of the hat carried jauntily in his hand, and about his person in the form of handkerchief and faja were those touches of bright colour by means of which he so irresistibly attracted the eye of the fair.
On its flat roof the forms of a dozen or more glazed skylights upreared themselves jauntily.
Osborne Blatch says that he was striding along jauntily, making believe his umbrella was a malacca cane, when he seemed to hear a voice.
He wore a brimless, conical white hat which, blending into the white of his forehead, would have made him rather resemble a bald pinhead, except that the cap was jauntily tilted just a bit to one side.
One of them lifted Imogen onto the pillion, and they set off jauntily to the castle.
Steve and jauntily challenged both men to a race, claiming they needed to settle the question once and for all of who was really the fastest Sheppard in the family.
The symmetry of their construction, and the continued repetition of the same form, are never better shown than when the men, climbing up the sides of a stack against which they look small, unbuild the mighty heap, the bags falling on to a continuous band which carries them jauntily out of the store.
Seeing his friend Agro nearby pointing at him and laughing, he waved jauntily.
After numerous rounds of boilermakers and an equal number of arguments about the current baseball season, they were shocked and dismayed to see a couple of Army guys jauntily walk in.
She was perched jauntily atop it without benefit of saddle, arms crossed over her breasts, legs hardly gripping the metal.
Italian sped away in the same direction as the Maillard, his battered soft hat set jauntily upon the back of his head, his gay-colored neckkerchief streaming in the wind.
Thomas Button tipped his laden wheelbarrow onto the muckheap, before striding jauntily back across the yard towards her.
Side by side, two buds have been tossing jauntily in the breeze, often brought very near to each other, sometimes touching for a moment, with a secret thrill in their close-folded heart-leaves, it may be, but still the cool green sepals shutting tight over the burning secret within.
Perhaps the tip of the Burma cheroot that jutted up jauntily past the bristling white moustache and aquiline nose glowed just a little too brightly, perhaps he sat just that little too relaxed in his cane-bottomed arm-chair, but that was all.