jaunty

His character Boswell Hyde—a “self-possessed pear-shaped young man in his rumpled seersuckers and his jaunty bow tie”—bears a close resemblance to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Harvard professor and adviser to John F. Kennedy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In 1938, he brought a jaunty brio to “The Adventures of Robin Hood” that forever defined the character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

My brothers were particularly fond of one wooden ewe mounted on wheels, which gave her the jaunty appearance of a sheep who had recently discovered skateboarding.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Erling Haaland stood on the pitch in Dallas, a goofy grin across his face and a Viking helmet atop his head at a jaunty angle.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

My mother would wear her broad-brimmed beaver hat when we came and my father would swing his cane in that jaunty way that showed how glad he was to be a man.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

Hnath creates his own universe, and the design choices should reflect this wonderland quality to a jauntier degree.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

If we felt just a trifle jauntier on Tuesday, we might not have considered citing its dew points.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022

Listen to the way he slips subtly from the work’s grim opening to the jauntier, waltzing second section.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017

To the rear is the stylishly poised Miramar restaurant and on one side the jauntier hotel Belle-Vue, with its tiny, busy balcony restaurant poking out on the first floor.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2013

Van Dusen, that very shrewd detective, observed that the old man trod with a jauntier step than heretofore, and that his expression was one of smug complacency.

From When the Cock Crows by Waldron Baily

That “Going Shopping” is the album’s jauntiest cut — with a music video that restages Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” no less — only sharpens the critique.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

The distinct period setting and sleek, angular design of the first “Incredibles,” with its Midcentury Modern home furnishings and retro-futuristic architecture, made it the jauntiest, most American of Pixar masterworks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2018

American insouciance melts Russian sanctimony in Arthur Freed’s 1957 production “Silk Stockings,” the jauntiest of Cold War movies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

On the pitch at least, Euro 2012 has been the jauntiest of tournaments so far and we could be in for a cracker tonight too.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012

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.

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