Words similar to jaunty

Example sentences for: jaunty

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It's fun to watch these jazzy young actors scrutinize their cards and each other and throw around their poker lingo; and the director, John Dahl ( The Last Seduction , 1994), gives the picture a jaunty tempo and a deep-toned Rembrandt look without ever calling attention to his hand.
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.
Some dispense with jaunty graphics, delivering temperatures in sober gray text.
( 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.