Sample Sentences forjaunty (editor-reviewed)
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She walks with a jaunty step.jaunty = lively and self-confident
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There's a jaunty optimism in her nature.jaunty = cheerful and self-confident
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His long chin faded off into a thin, apologetic beard, but his suit was a jaunty yellow that seemed to glow a little in the fading light. (source)jaunty = lively and self-confident
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"Morning, Mum," said George, in what he clearly thought was a jaunty, winning voice.† (source)
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The heirs watched the jaunty doorman pull out a chair for the judge.† (source)
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The accordion player now began to play a jaunty little melody reminiscent of an English carol.† (source)
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She was wearing a jaunty shirtwaist, white with small red and blue semaphore flags.† (source)
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Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom.† (source)
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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.
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He executes a jaunty hop to the next joist and begins his hammering all over again.† (source)
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"Well," said T.J., jauntily swinging into step with Stacey, "here we go again startin' another school year."† (source)
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He lifted his hat with a strange jauntiness which may have stood for pride.† (source)
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She is a jaunty, stringy, blue-eyed woman, with hair the color of silver and dry grass.† (source)
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In fact, as I watched her, she seemed quite happy, her two brown braids bouncing jauntily in rhythm to her walk.† (source)
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"Yeah, well you plus me, we're like MTV plus Lifetime," I say, with as much jauntiness as I can muster.† (source)
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A cigarette was cocked in one corner of his mouth at a jaunty angle.† (source)
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