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jauntily, adv.|ˈdʒɔːntɪlɪ|
[f. jaunty a. + -ly2.]
In a jaunty, gay, or airy manner; with an air of sprightly self-assertion.
1828Webster, Jantily. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. xvi. (1871) 77 His hat was rather jauntily placed on his curly red hair. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 4 Voltaire..jauntily forgives Bayle for having been right. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers of Flor. vi. 167 He then enters into his..treatment of his own wife which he expounds jantily. |