jauntiness
- n stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance
- n a breezy liveliness
- In the sometimes arcane vocabulary of the space program, the oft-repeated phrase "Roger, Houston," uttered with a kind of professional jauntiness, has always sounded reassuringly .
- His customary jauntiness subdued, a weary President last week resolutely vowed that "America will never make concessions to terrorists.
- The song's daring swings of rhythm and emotion consecutively express three moods of a lover in pursuit bliss ("Heaven, I'm in heaven"), jauntiness ("Oh, I love to climb a .