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Example sentences for: jaunty

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Bush wore a jaunty grin through most of the debate, grasping the podium as if it were the steering wheel of a sports car.
( GoodFellas was a jaunty laugh-fest for its first two-thirds, but that was just Scorsese's setup for disaster.)
But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism school.
The actor has been chewing the scenery for so long--brilliantly--that I wasn't sure he had this kind of jaunty star turn in him.
I agree with most everything you've said (or at least, everything you said that I understood), except that I wouldn't characterize any part of Goodfellas as a "jaunty laugh-fest."