quaint
adjective
having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque.
quainter
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comparativeof quaint.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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It was a quainter sort of hellraising performance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2019
Maybe writers David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall tried too hard to rationalize the material, updating one of DC’s weirder, quainter heroes into something modern.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018
For all of his pageantry, as he got older he got quainter.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
The fund used to be seen as the world's leading financial sadist — or a "grandmotherly" scold, in the quainter phrase of John Maynard Keynes, who conceived and co-founded it in the 1940s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2014
It was a quainter little figure than before, but nobody laughed now.
From The Adventures of Akbar by Byam Shaw
