quaint
adjective
having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque.
quaintly
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a word derived from
quaint.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Sayles notes that the U.S. is often quaintly likened to a melting pot; the reality of the country’s boiling admixture is much more dangerous and much more powerful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
An empty cart parked next to the driveway quaintly advertised “fresh cut flowers,” with an old-fashioned mailbox attached for payments.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
You know the markers: the quaintly named characters whose destinies match their monikers, the hammer-to-the-head foreshadowing, the dreaded deus ex machina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
The documents reflect quaintly archaic technologies used in the mid-1990s — typewriters, fax machines and handwritten notes.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2021
Who we are being so many hard facts held like candies or coins, just up one’s sleeve — one’s father, one’s mother, all the things that might quaintly be termed one’s station.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
