quaint
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Gloriously lush, vast and yet somehow deeply quaint, it was jarringly unexpected in the best of ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Nestled in the wooded hills of Austria's Styria region, the town of Leoben oozes tradition with its pastel-coloured buildings and quaint central square boasting a 13th-century church.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mitchell’s film, which follows a family of four in 1982 as they realize their entire quaint suburban neighborhood has somehow been transported back to the Mesozoic era, has understandably swept audiences off their feet.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Such restraint today seems as quaint as poodle skirts and “I Love Lucy.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
We parked in the center of town, which had big jacaranda trees and was very quaint.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
“Cornelia Street,” a fidgety, aimless new musical, is set on one of the Village’s quainter lanes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
It was a quainter sort of hellraising performance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2019
Maybe writers David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall tried too hard to rationalize the material, updating one of DC’s weirder, quainter heroes into something modern.
From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018
For all of his pageantry, as he got older he got quainter.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
He might have held romantically to the quainter spelling of the olden time as many others did, such as "Duddeley," "Crumwell," "Elmer."
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
Founded in 1849, Downieville, population 300, is one of California’s oldest towns, and also one of its quaintest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
So welcome, I suppose, to the quaintest desecration you’ll ever see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
At the Alaska Zoo, possibly the quaintest polling place in Anchorage, voters on Tuesday morning shared mixed feelings on the new system.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2022
Although we do not know what happens to butterflies at night, we do know that, as winter approaches, many will form a “Sepulchre of quaintest Floss”—a cocoon.
From Slate ● May 17, 2016
Poor little “Stumpy,” the other dog, was the queerest, quaintest little mongrel that ever lived.
From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon
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