Sample Sentences for
jaunty
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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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    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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    She was wearing a jaunty shirtwaist, white with small red and blue semaphore flags.†  (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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    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)
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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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    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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