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jaunty
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  • "Morning, Mum," said George, in what he clearly thought was a jaunty, winning voice.†  (source)
  • The heirs watched the jaunty doorman pull out a chair for the judge.†  (source)
  • "You could set yourself on fire," Elwood Murray appeared before us, upright and jaunty again.†  (source)
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  • The accordion player now began to play a jaunty little melody reminiscent of an English carol.†  (source)
  • "Well," said T.J., jauntily swinging into step with Stacey, "here we go again startin' another school year."†  (source)
  • She moved her head and shoulders now with the jauntiness of a boxer.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Earlier that day, dressing in his own dwelling, he had practiced the kind of jaunty, self-assured walk that he hoped he could make to the stage when his turn came.†  (source)
  • Kate said jauntily.†  (source)
  • "Yeah, well you plus me, we're like MTV plus Lifetime," I say, with as much jauntiness as I can muster.†  (source)
  • A day spent alone climbing the ladder and ripping tarpapered shingles from old planking left him whistling and jaunty.†  (source)
  • In fact, as I watched her, she seemed quite happy, her two brown braids bouncing jauntily in rhythm to her walk.†  (source)
  • Their shoulders drooped even as they laughed, and when they put their hands on their hips in a show of jauntiness, the palms slipped the thighs as if the pants were waxed.†  (source)
  • He executes a jaunty hop to the next joist and begins his hammering all over again.†  (source)
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