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Meanings of jaunty angle in English

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Usage of jaunty angle in English
1
But cocking his bonnet at a jaunty angle, he continued his way.
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
2
His cigarette was canted up under his nose at a jaunty angle.
Sympathy for the devil
3
The general put on his cap and slanted it at a jaunty angle.
All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
4
We wore our field-service caps at the jaunty angle of all right-minded subalterns.
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
5
It should not be tilted backwards, or at a jaunty angle.
Wired
6
A tweed cap, tilted at a jaunty angle, topped his scraggly red hair.
Savage
7
At least his tail flew out at a jaunty angle that I rather liked.
Shadows in Bronze
8
Then he saw the ear cocked at a jaunty angle.
The Land of Painted Caves
9
A cigarette was cocked in one corner of his mouth at a jaunty angle.
The Shining
10
He is elegantly dressed, favouring colourful ties and a hat worn at a jaunty angle.
The Irish Times
11
Its neck was tilted upward at a jaunty angle.
Funland
12
He set his cap at a jaunty angle and stood for a moment in the doorway.
King Rat
13
He retained his bowler at its jaunty angle.
Dope
14
She insisted on wearing her little felt cap at a jaunty angle on her blond hair.
The Goose Man
15
Never be photographed wearing a brim-only hat with your perm poking out at a jaunty angle?
The Guardian
16
And the jaunty angle was particularly off-putting.
Hell to pay
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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