quaint
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Such restraint today seems as quaint as poodle skirts and “I Love Lucy.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
For years, I’ve found myself gravitating towards stories about neighborhood restaurants, family businesses, local farmers, and food traditions — not because they’re quaint or nostalgic, but because they’re windows into something larger.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The script was revised, but even still it was seen as a dramatic throwback to a quaint yet belabored school of playwriting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Patrick Dempsey has lifted the lid on his childhood growing up in a quaint Maine town—revealing the stark differences between that experience and the life he lives today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
They were quaint devices that belonged to the nineteenth century.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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 fund used to be seen as the world's leading financial sadist — or a "grandmotherly" scold, in the quainter phrase of John Maynard Keynes, who conceived and co-founded it in the 1940s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2014
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
Thatcham is one of the quietest and quaintest old towns in Berkshire.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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