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- adjective
comparative form ofjaunty : morejaunty
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Examples
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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
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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
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The sign was jauntier and more optimistic than the building.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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The sign was jauntier and more optimistic than the building.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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The sign was jauntier and more optimistic than the building.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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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
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Remember the jauntier days when that angel of death, Jessica Fletcher, traveled the land and thwarted homicidal maniacs on Murder, She Wrote?
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Eagle Jack adjusted his derby to a jauntier angle.
Dead As A Doornail Harris, Charlaine 2005
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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
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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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