Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air.
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Examples for "jaunty "
Examples for "jaunty "
1 The line above comes from the jaunty Matrimony; such an old-fashioned word.
2 The feeling in the court next morning was good tempered, even jaunty .
3 But the ice-boat was as fearless and as gaily jaunty as Siegfried.
4 The jaunty music appears to be pointing us in a jokey direction.
5 She was even jaunty in her recital of the weather's minor hardships.
1 I see no sign of this debonair gentleman and of his following.
2 She lost some of her debonair insolence that expressed itself in indifference.
3 The colonel went to the barracks, but his usual debonair was missing.
4 Gone was the debonair gentleman of a quarter of an hour ago.
5 The green man's laboured smile vanished altogether, as did his debonair manner.
1 But what is lightsome and blithe in her, was debonaire in him.
2 My dear Alwyn, those Yorkshire lasses are parlously comely, and mighty douce and debonaire .
3 The debonaire laziness was gone from Brice's voice and manner.
4 She seems a very debonaire , but a plain lady.
5 She seems a very debonaire , but plain lady.
1 Still, I end the day feeling rather chipper about this dieting lark.
2 He wasn't surprised to hear her chipper voice telling him to enter.
3 Mimi had told Ruth emphatically to have Bethy looking bright and chipper .
4 Larry's more chipper than I've seen him this whole trip, almost sunny.
5 But she'd seemingly come to her senses and appeared lovely and chipper .
6 But I was young and chipper when I joined that brisk campaign
7 His chipper English flowed into Urdu at the chime of his BlackBerry.
8 The day after the debate, Guy Verhofstadt is in a chipper mood.
9 Now I find thee bright and smiling, and chipper as a tomtit.
10 Mr. Marin ran through his lines, sounding robust, trustworthy, and vote-for-me chipper .
11 But I am a little taken aback by how chipper he is.
12 A smile suddenly broadened upon the Manager's now young and chipper face.
13 Grease-laden clouds from the chipper out front wafted in on summer evenings.
14 Mornings were spent training with the seemingly inexhaustible and eternally chipper Aerin.
15 Bad time fer us, when the birds are so tame, an' chipper .
16 Don't mind them youngsters, Sandy; they're always pretty chipper of an evenin'.
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