quaint
Example Sentences
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“But that’s not an adult way to handle it,” Harris said between errands in Monrovia’s quaint shopping district.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
All the Berlin songs remain magical, even if a cast, like the one here, thinks they need to be delivered with a dose of camp, as if we’ve heard them so often they’re quaint.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Instead, in a sign of the times that seems impossibly quaint in the harsh light of 2026, she issued a somber mea culpa.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
Rhys portrays the mayor of a quaint New England town who is trying to attract tourists while playing down reports of the supernatural.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Yet the genteel detachment of Pasteur and his contemporaries seemed quaint, even foolish, given the profits to be made in the industrial world.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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