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Meanings of jauntiness in English

Catalan
galania
Spanish
gracia

Stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance.

        galania
        Spanish
        garbo

        A breezy liveliness.

              garbo
              Usage of jauntiness in English
              1
              He had certainly shown courage and had done his deed with jauntiness.
              Hidden Creek
              2
              She spoke with an effort at jauntiness after Merton had greeted her.
              Merton of the Movies
              3
              Friends and well-wishers took the jauntiness all out of him in no time.
              Ma Pettengill
              4
              There is an indescribable jauntiness about him apparent in every word and gesture.
              The Recreations of a Country Parson
              5
              Still jauntily-Rose-Marierealized that jauntiness was his keynote-theyoung man entered the room.
              The Island of Faith
              6
              There was not a trace of his old jauntiness and display.
              The Doctor's Dilemma
              7
              How the jauntiness of his brightly striped scarf pierces the heart!
              The Guardian
              8
              His accent took a little from the jauntiness of Katharine's bearing.
              The Brentons
              9
              The driver accepted this humiliating accident with a certain jauntiness.
              The new yorker
              10
              The assurance and jauntiness which generally marked his demeanour and dress were, however, wanting.
              Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
              11
              The very jauntiness of his stride was as a red rag to the captain.
              A Splendid Hazard
              12
              For the moment all the jauntiness and exuberance had been drained out of him.
              Mike
              13
              She walked on with a new jauntiness in her stride.
              The Little Warrior
              14
              But inside the building he lost some of his jauntiness.
              The Breaking Point
              15
              With assumed jauntiness he strolled from the outlaws' den and safely reached the street.
              Somewhere in Red Gap
              16
              His jauntiness was oppressive, dominated as it was by those perturbed and hungry eyes.
              The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
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