quaint

They did not look quaint or musty but decidedly contemporary, even stylish.

The present trend—longer lives and lower birthrates—will make Ford’s labor-force problem seem quaint as we move through the next two to three decades.

He had searched every one of those sickeningly quaint villages, with their happy yodelers and endless mugs of hot chocolate, but to no avail.

Though Marion looked quaint and idyllic from the outside, the city’s Colored residents knew to stay in their place.

And that’s pretty much how I imagined it; what I never imagined is that the future reader might look back on any of this, or on my own peculiar experience, and say, “How quaint.”