quaint
Example Sentences
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It offered thick but uneven walls and rot in the roof beams, but was cozy and quaint, with almost an acre of land.
She canted her head as if it was all so quaint.
From Literature
As an X-file from an earlier era, when fringe theories about UFOs, crop circles or the Loch Ness monster were quarantined as tabloid fodder, the lore around the wilderness footage seems quaint by today’s standards.
Perched on the edge of the rugged Yorkshire moors that inspired Emily Bronte to write her masterpiece "Wuthering Heights", the quaint village of Haworth has long been a place of literary pilgrimage.
From Barron's
Now that looks downright quaint, as premium partners are raking in as much as Clark—and far more in some cases.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
