quaint
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The Weimar Republic is named for the quaint, cobbled city that hosted the new state’s constituent assembly in 1919.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Because of its proximity to the Blue House, the president's official residence, urban development has been restricted, allowing the neighbourhood to retain its quaint charm.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It makes other recent relationship scandals in the reality TV universe seem quaint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
They always flew along the wires of this place like a kettle of jeweled hawks, cresting over the rooftops of turreted houses and quaint shops all stuck together like assorted taffies.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
He might have held romantically to the quainter spelling of the olden time as many others did, such as "Duddeley," "Crumwell," "Elmer."
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
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
Botley is one of the quietest, quaintest, and most unsophisticated wee villages ever the Wanderer rolled into.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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