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  • adjective superlative form of jaunty: most jaunty.

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Examples

  • "Sunny Skies" is the jauntiest tune by far, though it remains a little too impersonal to stay with you the way Taylor's best songs do.

    Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011

  • "Sunny Skies" is the jauntiest tune by far, though it remains a little too impersonal to stay with you the way Taylor's best songs do.

    Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011

  • Roman Abramovich has been tootling around the Med on his yacht with his captain's hat at the jauntiest of jaunty angles and noticed Monaco's Chu-Young Park through his binoculars with an £8m price tag slapped on his head.

    Football transfer rumours: Carlton Cole to Liverpool? 2010

  • She teams up with do-it-all duet-meister Elvis Costello on the album's jauntiest tune, Harland Howard's "Heartaches By The Number," which has been covered by everyone from Bing Crosby to Waylon Jennings.

    Michael Bialas: Rosanne Cash's The List Covers a Lot of Ground 2009

  • The Major came up to them after the service, with his well-brushed hat and wig, and his jauntiest, most cheerful air.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Joan nodded, Hedstrom erupted, and Tom Robichaux, at his jauntiest, entered the room.

    Murder to Go Lathen, Emma, pseud 1969

  • Add to the charms of his physique, the jauntiest, most bewitching of uniforms, the clinking spurs, the shining buttons, the jacket following every line of his figure, and no wonder maidens 'hearts seek him out always and young pulses beat quicker at his approach.

    Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason

  • There is nothing you can ask for but what he has, -- from crowbars down to cambric-needles; from velveteen trousers up to broadcloth coats of the jauntiest description.

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

  • "I am his nephew," said Mr. Lenox with his jauntiest air.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • There was the coral tie at her throat, as she had planned, and perched on her curls was the jauntiest little hat imaginable that served only to keep the sun off the top of her head and was no protection whatever to her tip-tilted freckled nose.

    The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Katherine Stokes

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