All 4 Uses
jaunty
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Nectar in a Sieve
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- The animals, refreshed, began stepping jauntily again, tossing their heads and jangling the bells that hung from their red-painted horns.†
Chpt 1 *
- The next swings his lathi jauntily; he does not know anything, he will not say.†
Chpt 12
- She moved jauntily, stepping with outrageous fastidiousness amid the litter of the street, the chewed sugar cane, the trampled sweetmeats, the red betel-nut spittle; jauntily, a half-smile on her lips answering the jeers and calls that were thrown at her, eyes darting quickly round searching, then retreating behind half-drawn lids.†
Chpt 16
- She moved jauntily, stepping with outrageous fastidiousness amid the litter of the street, the chewed sugar cane, the trampled sweetmeats, the red betel-nut spittle; jauntily, a half-smile on her lips answering the jeers and calls that were thrown at her, eyes darting quickly round searching, then retreating behind half-drawn lids.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(jaunty) appearing cheerful, lively, and self-confident
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)