quaint
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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
Some of the plots of my earlier novels would seem quaint today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Such restraint today seems as quaint as poodle skirts and “I Love Lucy.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 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
The words must have elicited from Poillon a knowing, if wry, smile; in the midst of his travails, Lawrence was looking ahead to the time when the cyclotron’s inconstancy would be merely a quaint memory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
I know of no quainter literature than is to be found in these very old New York papers.
From Greenwich Village by Allan G. (Allan Gilbert) Cram
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 the quaintest feature of all in the Schrannien Platz is a sort of arcade which runs around it.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
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