quaint

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

She had always regarded the color turquoise, like shocking pink and chartreuse, as the color equivalent of the word ain't: quaint when seldom used but vulgar in great doses.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

The visitor, come from whatever direction he may, has the Temple constantly in view as a reminder of the quainter style of "meeting-houses" in New England.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

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

But specially is he delightful in juxtaposition with Nell, a little girl who says the quaintest things in the most laughable, most lovable manner.

From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Jennie M. Drinkwater