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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It is, quaintly and truly, the people’s house, paid for by taxpayers and enduring over centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
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
Whether you live on the Kitsap Peninsula or are just looking for an excuse to take your bike on a ferry, mountain biking awaits just outside the quaintly restored mill town of Port Gamble.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2022
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
