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Jauntily

//ˈd͡ʒɑn.tɪ.li// adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an airy, showy, or affected manner.
  2. 2
    In a dapper or stylish manner.
  3. 3
    In an ostentatiously self-confident manner.

    "[He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a jaunty fashionable manner wordnet

Etymology

From jaunty + -ly.

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