What is "jaunty"

Usage examples of "jaunty".

Honorius the afrit leaped upon the bonnet of the car, femurs akimbo, hands on hip bones, skull cocked at a jaunty angle.

He did not look at all cast down as the train steamed fussily away--- indeed, he walked down the platform with almost a jaunty air as if the prospect of two months bachelordom was not without its redeeming points.

I set the bag down and put the boater on at a jaunty angle that would have made Lord Peter proud.

Then she left me alone to discover exactly what Dunster was planning to do to Jaunty Blair.

The inhabitants of Pomeriggio had died, a person called Dunster had been born to bring about unmitigated disaster, Jaunty had lost the power of speech, a hit man had been compelled to off-load his Rollers and flee the country, and Lance Corporal Sweeting had deserted all so that Justin Glover could fly to Italy, unencumbered by his nearest and dearest.

Jaunty Blair, I remembered, had recalled the facts as Dunster wanted them with the aid of a bottle of Remy Martin.

This commandant was a jaunty man, young to command, with a military moustache and a concave back, by name Bandal Eith Lahl.

The warmth must have reached him, for as she reached the chorus, he shook himself, and suddenly his harp joined the jaunty chords of her gittern as his voice joined hers in harmony.

With a jaunty, triumphant air, Karn slammed the sword Di An had brought to High Spires home into his scabbard.

From his soft felt hat with its jaunty feathers and trailing liripipe, to the fine supple leather of his riding boots, everything about him proclaimed him a wealthy man.

The cell was packed, with tired men, unhappy men, spade cats and ofay, handsome men and warped-looking creatures, sick guys lying on their sides on the cement floor, and jaunty swinging hipsters with knees pulled up on the bench, chewing gum and laughing to themselves.

They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

Some of the things I had thought and dreamed about secretly among the hills of my farm all these years, dreamed about as being something far off and as unrealizable as the millennium, were here being sung abroad with jaunty faith by these weavers of Kilburn, these weavers and workers whom I had schooled myself to regard with a sort of distant pity.

Others had more exotic rags and a more foreign look: jaunty street-thieves of Dinander, or wealthless travelers run afoul of municipal authority.

A mini-skirted courier, English as a rose and harassed as Hell her white blouse soggy while her blue and white hat still sat jaunty on her head came fluttering, clutching her millboard with its bulldog clip and thin sheaf of notes.