quaintness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“If we’re saying we will lose our quaintness because we have an address, I think that’s a false narrative,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2024
Some of the quaintness of the ride has been lost, of course, as commercialism took root along the route.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Celebration promised a throwback quaintness, the way towns allegedly were.
From Salon • May 2, 2023
“Admittedly, Crumb has ‘reintroduced’ expressivity to avant-garde concerts, which comes as a quaintness to blasé ears,” he wrote, “but his music is nothing more than expressivity — hanging unqualified in air.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022
This is what I have, coffee and pie, sitting in one of the purple booths, watching young people exclaim over what they think is the quaintness of the past.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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