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jauntily

[ jawn-tuh-lee, jahn- ]

adverb

  1. in an easy and lively manner:

    Just as she was wishing he were there, he suddenly appeared on the stairway and made his way jauntily down it.

  2. in a smartly trim manner:

    With the yellow beret perched jauntily on my head, I thought I was a true fashion plate.



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He could not describe himself, as Roosevelt so jauntily did, as having passed from being "Dr. New Deal" to "Dr. Win the War."

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Nearby, Rhythm jauntily greets some of the show’s producers, who pause their work to pet the charming pup.

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Like a certain energized bunny, Ryan Gosling’s charmer in “The Fall Guy” takes a licking and keeps jauntily ticking as he runs and leaps, tumbles and punches and vaults through the air like a rocket.

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It’s a jauntily asymmetrical tune that rides a bluesy riff and a backbeat from the drummer Dave King of the Bad Plus.

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But the visible satisfaction of the model’s pose — arm akimbo, hand jauntily on hip, bottom thrust out with confidence — also marks a forceful break with the passivity of the female nude.

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