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Definition of Jauntily
1. Adverb. In a jaunty fashionable manner. "His hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair"
Definition of Jauntily
1. adv. In a jaunty manner.
Definition of Jauntily
1. Adverb. In an airy, showy, or affected manner. ¹
2. Adverb. In a dapper or stylish manner. ¹
3. Adverb. In an ostentatiously self-confident manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jauntily
1. jaunty [adv] - See also: jaunty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jauntily
Literary usage of Jauntily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"Even the short perspective of an individual life reveals man at its close absorbed
by the same ground on which he lately walked so jauntily, boasting that ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"Even the short perspective of an individual life reveals man at its close absorbed
by the same ground on which he lately walked so jauntily, boasting that ..."
3. The Orchid by Robert Grant (1905)
"Let it be two, by all means," he said jauntily. "It shall be two," she replied
with the assurance of a necromancer confident of compelling respect for his ..."
4. The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (1896)
"passed jauntily from hymn to hymn and from tune to tune, with an ease and buoyancy
all their own. " Oh ! who can explain This struggle for life, ..."
5. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1908)
"... cannot treat life so jauntily, for he has to make his living: and when a man
is forced to live in Lotus-land, it is Lotus-land no longer. ..."
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