jauntily, adv.
(ˈdʒɔːntɪlɪ)
[f. jaunty a. + -ly2.]
In a jaunty, gay, or airy manner; with an air of sprightly self-assertion.
| 1828 Webster, Jantily. 1837 Disraeli Venetia i. xvi. (1871) 77 His hat was rather jauntily placed on his curly red hair. 1876 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 4 Voltaire..jauntily forgives Bayle for having been right. 1877 Mrs. Oliphant Makers of Flor. vi. 167 He then enters into his..treatment of his own wife which he expounds jantily. |