quaint

Because of its proximity to the Blue House, the president's official residence, urban development has been restricted, allowing the neighbourhood to retain its quaint charm.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

PIDDINGTON, England—This quiet Oxfordshire village boasts a 14th-century church, a small village hall, quaint thatched roofs and pleasant countryside walks in rolling hills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

In 2023, LA Gems Private Jewelers was formed, and Holdo organized a new business called Brivetti in a quaint office along East Coast Highway in Corona del Mar in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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

Whitewashed cottages, quaint except for the satellite dishes sprouting from their roofs, lined a small grid of muddy gravel streets.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

One of the first true baseball “stadiums,” in contrast to quainter “ballparks,” the “House That Ruth Built” included multiple decks wrapping around the field, allowing for the largest seating capacity in the sport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024

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

No quainter political figure has appeared in America than Horace Greeley, thus transferred from his editorial office to the stump.

From The New Nation by William E. Dodd

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

She was about thirty years old when she died; but if she had lived she would have presented the old city in its quaintest aspect.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham