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  • adjective comparative form of jaunty: more jaunty

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Examples

  • Another variation on this sportswear idea is simply an untucked long-sleeved shirt — with the sleeves rolled up to mid-arm for a jauntier look.

    Clothes That Make Men Look Slimmer Teri Agins 2010

  • On her head was a jaunty swimming cap no jauntier than herself when she urged the ten minutes in place of five.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • The sign was jauntier and more optimistic than the building.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • The sign was jauntier and more optimistic than the building.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • The sign was jauntier and more optimistic than the building.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • What’s more, it’s jauntier, more likeable Keane: piano-led indie pop with a pretty melody and an obvious debt to seventies soft rock.

    Boo-Boo Album Of The Week: Primal Scream, ‘Give Out But Don’t Give Up’ 2006

  • Remember the jauntier days when that angel of death, Jessica Fletcher, traveled the land and thwarted homicidal maniacs on Murder, She Wrote?

    TV needs more sleuths of a certain age | EW.com 2006

  • Eagle Jack adjusted his derby to a jauntier angle.

    Dead As A Doornail Harris, Charlaine 2005

  • He tilted the hat to a jauntier angle and said, "How ever will the girls keep their legs closed when they see me walking down the street?"

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • But Canada proved to me that red, orange, and yellow trees look jauntier and brighter where they are set off with a touch of green.

    Peeping in Peace 1997

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