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
It has been that way for generations across the corn belt, a quaintly American scene that has played out on farms ranging from Iowa and Missouri to Oklahoma and Nebraska.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
As fiction, the conceit of “Ted Lasso” is quaintly nostalgic: the innocent abroad discovering the quirks of an unimaginably foreign environment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
At the Army post’s museum, Afghanistan is already an exhibit, complete with oil paintings of notable battles, showing uniforms already quaintly dated.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
His sugared almond tasted of her name which seemed so quaintly improbable that he wondered if he had remembered it correctly.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
