How to use jaunty in a sentence
16 example sentences · adjective, noun
Jaunty means airy; showy; finical. Example: “He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.”
Examples of jaunty by meaning
adjectiveDapper or stylish.
- He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.
adjectiveOstentatiously self-confident.
- He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.
nounA master-at-arms on board a Royal Navy ship.
- ‘When libertymen come back there’s the quartermaster, the crusher, the officer of the day, sometimes the Jaunty hisself and usually Big Bill.’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 74
More sentences with jaunty
- The couple’s romance, captured with intimate closeups and accompanied by a jaunty Europop soundtrack, is rapturous.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in The A.V. Club…. From the entry happily ever after
- It was all a bit unimaginative, so I rearranged everything at a jaunty angle.2004, Clare Sudbery, The dying of delight. From the entry tetris
- That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.1995, Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire, Heinemann, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry jaz
- The object was a jaunty nauticalness, I guess, but it made me seasick.1993 August, Paul Kemprecos, chapter 11, in Feeding Frenzy (An Aristotle ‘Soc’ Socarides Mystery; 4), New York, N.Y.: A Perfect Crime…. From the entry nauticalness
- He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau.1922, DH Lawrence, ‘The Horse-dealer's Daughter’, England, My England. From the entry museau
- “I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars.2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry wobble
- Herbert appeared peppily at her front door, holding a Tory leaflet and wearing a jaunty turquoise Tory ribbon.2009 June 4, Sarah Lyall, “British Minister Quits, Dealing New Blow to Brown”, in New York Times. From the entry peppily
- Behind the plaque a brass and jaunty Joyce re-juggles book, stick and cigarette, defiantly dandy, unparanoid at last beneath his canopy of ferns.1974, Samuel John Hazo, Quartered. From the entry unparanoid
- It was about this time that the rest of the French Navy staggered in with the jauntiest of Moorea's wenchhood upon its arm.1933, Hassoldt Davis, Islands Under the Wind, page 32. From the entry wenchhood
- I went on alone and in the course of the days I fell in with many persons, stupid persons, great persons, jaunty ones.1922, A. E. Coppard, “Marching to Zion”, in Adam & Eve & Pinch Me. From the entry fall in with
- Gaily painted, with lots of sheer and a defiantly jaunty look to them, the dories have been pleasing the eyes of their beholders for nearly a century.1978 March, Steven H. Rubin, “The St. Pierre Dory: An Endangered Species”, in Boating, volume 43, number 3, →ISSN, page 72. From the entry dory
- As danger thickened his jaunty manner would increase, his speech become more racy, his cold eyes glitter into ardent life, and his Don Quixote moustache bristle with joyous excitement.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Don Quixote
- Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.1910, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 3, in The Broad Highway. From the entry unkempt
Meaning of jaunty
- adjective Airy; showy; finical.
- adjective Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
- adjective Dapper or stylish.
Questions about jaunty in a sentence
- How do you use jaunty in a sentence?
- Jaunty is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.”
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- “He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.”
- What does jaunty mean?
- Jaunty means airy; showy; finical.
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