adv. [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 Flor., vi. 167. He then enters into his special mode of treatment of his own wife which he expounds jantily to his sons.
