JAUNTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jauntily mean? 

• JAUNTILY (adverb)
  The adverb JAUNTILY has 1 sense:

1. in a jaunty fashionable manner

  Familiarity information: JAUNTILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAUNTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a jaunty fashionable manner

Context example:

his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair

Pertainym:

jaunty (marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners)

 Context examples 

His was the gait of the wolf, smooth, tireless and effortless, and at the end of fifty miles he would come in jauntily ahead of the horse.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He carried his head very jauntily in the air, had a swaggering style of walking, and was, above all else, remarkable for his extraordinary height.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well I remember his thin, upright figure and the way in which he jauntily twirled his little cane; for cold and hunger could not cast him down, though we knew that he had his share of both.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more but of this clean, hard, limited person who dealt in universal skepticism and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

She was dressed to play golf and I remember thinking she looked like a good illustration, her chin raised a little, jauntily, her hair the color of an autumn leaf, her face the same brown tint as the fingerless glove on her knee.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)