[
US
/ˈkweɪntɫi/
]
[ UK /kwˈeɪntli/ ]
[ UK /kwˈeɪntli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a strange but not unpleasant manner
the old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly -
in a quaint old-fashioned manner
the room was quaintly furnished
How To Use quaintly In A Sentence
- While it looks quaintly ancient on the outside, the bedrooms would sit just as easily in any fashionable city boutique hotel.
- The word tush occurs frequently and quaintly: "Tush I an sure to fail; Sabbath in Puritan New England
- the room was quaintly furnished
- However, rape, sexual violation, and incest are not crimes that are now quaintly foreign or out of date in Aotearoa today, alas.
- TO the books of the monastery some human interest clings: we can at once conjure up a picture of the cloister and the scribe at his work; the handling of an old manuscript, the turning over of finely-written and quaintly-illuminated yellow pages, throws the mind flashing back centuries to the silent writer in his carrell. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
- His clothes - a Fair Isle pullover and collarless white shirt - were quaintly old-fashioned.
- Quaintly panda software antivirus throughput are oftentimes in department when the telpher hatpin to qoph anaphrodisia or to finder its dracunculus for that lubricious end. Rational Review
- Through the summer, you'll barely turn a corner without seeing a Highland Games, with the skirl of the bagpipes, tug-o'-war, races and what they quaintly call heavy events’ - throwing lumps of metal and tossing the caber.
- 'Occasional Supper Clubs', as they have been quaintly dubbed, are clandestine gatherings of food-fanciers.
- I branch off into the residential area, passing dozens of quaintly named, chocolate-box cottages.