(superl.) Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few passersby, some in fancy dress ahead of Purim holiday, stopped to the read the signs: a man wearing a jaunty green Robin Hood cap with a red feather; some men in judo outfits.
(2) The score has a barrel-organ or carousel jauntiness, and sometimes sounds like an old air you once gathered peascods to.
(3) The theme tune alone, a jaunty bit of jazz-rock in a call-and-response format, can induce a mental state that, on a winter morning when the sun will not rise for another two hours, is doomy and tinged with moral collapse.
(4) A photo of Anne with her elder sister and parents out together in May 1941 near their home in Amsterdam is a poignant reminder of the freedom they lost, while a jaunty image of Anne, taken by her sister Margot, shows her leaning over the balcony of a block of flats and letting her hair fly.
(5) Gatherer found five blocs operating between 1999 and 2005, and he gave them jaunty names.
(6) The clinic's wheelchairs have white plastic seats cut from garden furniture, lending an incongruous jauntiness to the wretchedness.
(7) The Advertising Standards Authority took an earlier, equally jaunty ad off the air , ruling that the "light-hearted presentation of the ad was likely to mislead about the nature and implications of the product".
(8) Jaunty tailored jackets, harlequin coats and trousers with zips at the ankle were styled with high-collared printed shirts and ponytails.
(9) The PA system should blast out a bit of jaunty piano, but doesn't.
(10) Succinct tales of fracture and failure, and thumbnail sketches of lonely desperation, positively revelling in the flotsam of American life are all set to jaunty rock and ragtime rhythms.
(11) There she is on the back of the jacket, beaming out from a photo in which she’s dressed up like a naval captain, complete with jaunty cap and pipe, her gaze trained on some far-off horizon.
(12) Beetlejuice is darker and weightier and definitely ends on more jaunty Harry Belafonte songs than The Dark Knight Rises.
(13) The three Alexander McQueen outfits that made the most front pages from the Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour wardrobe were: a sky blue belted knee-length coat, accessorised with navy round-toe suede shoes and a matching clutch bag; a demure dove grey coat with a jaunty grey hat; and a ballet-shoe pink peplum top and skirt, which the duchess wore with LK Bennett courts and pearl drop earrings.
(14) If you still remember General Pinochet's jaunty arrival at Santiago airport, despite his alleged senility and collapsing health, take heart.
(15) Forlan is dropping deep and causing a lot of trouble, his playmaker's hat wedged onto his turnip at a jaunty angle.
(16) The Christmas tree in the reception of what used to be Mark Group, an energy company with more than 1,000 staff, looks jaunty enough but underneath it there are barely a handful of presents.
(17) There are isolated jaunty moments: a musical duet with an existentialist banjo; some amusing homilies written on cards and distributed to the audience.
(18) Give me honky tears,' he howls on 'South Side of the World', a song that manages to sound jaunty and angry, and as close to political as he has yet come.'
(19) 4.57pm BST The Italian tune passes off without a hitch, a jaunty number with which the players sing along merrily, though Pirlo, as ever, seems to be putting to be putting in less effort than everyone else - but he probably has the voice of Pavarotti.
(20) Many more pop star national anthem reviews here : Brazil have a wonderfully jaunty national anthem that climbs up and down the scales with the agility of a young Jairzinho.
Showy
Definition:
(a.) Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why on earth launch a showy new pound coin with so much fanfare, when the real news is supposed to be the UK's superb growth projections, absurdly generous new subsidies for childcare and a thoroughly welcome rise in the income tax threshold, courtesy of Nick Clegg?
(2) It is simply a question of following the steps carefully to produce a brilliantly showy pudding.
(3) Shilton springs a long way to his left to catch the ball – a slightly showy save but still a good one.
(4) Born in 1973 in Honiton, Devon, the future champion was "never showy, but quietly confident," according to her mother, Linda Davis.
(5) The result is a mash-up of 9 To 5, Strangers On A Train and The Hangover, and as usual, Bateman's dry wit is an oasis of calm in a movie full of showy comic turns from Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and others.
(6) Similar anticipation by Baines prevented Fellaini scoring a second after a pirouette with the ball in the Everton area, then when Rashford played Valencia in on the overlap with a showy disguised pass, the United player had to delay his cross because not a single red shirt was waiting in the box.
(7) The same instinct for the simple, the dramatic and the showy governs his approach to recasting school exams, of which his announcement last week on A-levels was the latest example.
(8) "He's very calm and reassuring and he's not showy," said a senior television news executive.
(9) "It's not because I'm being showy or precious," she said.
(10) There will be some showy changes to domestic law, which other EU members will disapprove of, but can tolerate.
(11) I’ll be honest – the whole thing has always just seemed a bit sparkly and showy to me.
(12) By her own admission this week May is not a “showy politician” who courts the media, gossips about colleagues over lunch or spends time in the watering holes of Westminster.
(13) The FA has been buying land next to schools and building pitches: enclosed timber-built, artificial-turfed pitches, paid for by money that might otherwise have ended up in some familiar dead end: unnecessarily showy mega-stadiums, executive salaries, another Bugatti in the garage.
(14) This might tell us more about the company Amis keeps than the views of the general population; especially if you tire of these showy contributions from someone who spends most of his time somewhere else.
(15) In a recent Guardian review, they were deemed "big bold showy headphones ... with lacklustre sound" while What Hi-Fi said they were a "one-trick trendy pony" with sound that lacked detail or articulation.
(16) Consumers are polarised between bargain prices for basic clothes and trading up for more showy clothes – this may change, and Primark’s foray into markets like the USA adds an element of future risk.” At Primark’s owner, ABF, profits before tax halved to £213m.
(17) Meticulously presented, though contrasts of textures and flavours sometimes go too far down the showy molecular route.
(18) It is not a showy cry, designed to elicit sympathy.
(19) It really breathes as it hobbles along, and yet it's never showy nor overly optimistic.
(20) Anthony Lane, writing in the New Yorker, laid his cards on the table: 'If you don't get this cut, if you think it's cheesy or showy or over the top, and if something inside you doesn't flare up and burn at the spectacle that Lean has conjured, then you might as well give up the movies.'