quaintness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
But as the many appreciations that marked her death on Tuesday made clear, Angela Lansbury was in a class by herself, and “Murder, She Wrote” was, all that quaintness notwithstanding, revolutionary.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022
That is until, abruptly, the quaintness gives way to a more eclectic quilt of neighborhoods that could be any postindustrial city of the American Northeast.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022
After all, the Latin terms survive more or less in free variation with the Greek, and Puttenham’s English equivalents are abundantly charming—albeit that charm is conditioned by a certain quaintness.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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