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What does jaunty mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word jaunty? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Airy; showy; finical
  2. (by extension) Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
  3. Dapper or stylish.
  4. Ostentatiously self-confident.
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Her glossy hair's done up in a jaunty black ponytail and she's sizing me up from behind a cool, guarded smile.
Why does my hair, which is short on top and usually stands up in a jaunty sort of manner at home, go flat whenever I go to London?
A young soldier, his black tricorn at a jaunty angle, moved to make room for him.
Played at a quickstep tempo, the dirge was at once transformed into a jaunty, comic, oompah version of the Scottish anthem.
Something about him she didn't like, his jaunty airs, the straw cowboy hat placed raggedly atop his musty brown crop of hair.
On the surface, the music is brash, ebullient, jaunty, but also technically well crafted and even refined.

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