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
This is a sport that seems to be a holdover from a quainter version of the Olympics a century ago.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2016
We were constantly finding new and unusual charms in the quaint old towns, each seeming for some reason quainter than the preceding one.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards
