All 7 Uses of
jaunty
in
Anna Karenina
- Kitty was walking there with her mother and the Moscow colonel, smart and jaunty in his European coat, bought ready-made at Frankfort.†
Part 2 *
- At the corner of the pavement, in a short, stylish overcoat and a low-crowned fashionable hat, jauntily askew, with a smile that showed a gleam of white teeth and red lips, stood Stepan Arkadyevitch, radiant, young, and beaming.†
Part 4
- "Queer fish!" said Stepan Arkadyevitch to his wife, and glancing at his watch, he made a motion of his hand before his face, indicating a caress to his wife and children, and walked jauntily along the pavement.†
Part 4
- The deacon's hand in a plush cuff accepted a three-rouble note unobtrusively, and the deacon said he would put it down in the register, and his new boots creaking jauntily over the flagstones of the empty church, he went to the altar.†
Part 5
- Levin said, looking angrily at a gentleman who walked jauntily at that instant across the corridor, as though about his affairs.†
Part 5
- On the stairs he met a coupleāa lady running quickly on her high heels and the jaunty deputy prosecutor.†
Part 6
- During those two hours in Volgarinov's waiting room Stepan Arkadyevitch, stepping jauntily about the room, pulling his whiskers, entering into conversation with the other petitioners, and inventing an epigram on his position, assiduously concealed from others, and even from himself, the feeling he was experiencing.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(jaunty) appearing cheerful, lively, and self-confident