Definition of quaintly in English:
quaintly
adverb ˈkweɪntliˈkweɪntli
In an attractively unusual or old-fashioned manner.
the menu still refers, quaintly, to feathered and furred game
Example sentencesExamples
- One of these oddities was the quaintly titled Piccadilly House.
- The Government is spending $11 .7 million walling itself in in the national Parliament in a project the bureaucracy quaintly calls "security enhancement".
- We arrived at our hotel, quaintly named 'The Cleopatra'.
- He quaintly refers to the Wachowskis as 'the boys'.
- White rooftops cluster quaintly against the lower slopes.
- The quaintly named Mariner's Haven is a new development from the house builders Local Homes.
- Posters now appear quaintly old-fashioned, something to be collected rather than made.
- 'Occasional Supper Clubs', as they have been quaintly dubbed, are clandestine gatherings of food-fanciers.
- We discover that artists' studios range from ultramodern to quaintly rural.
- Quaintly, it can be lucky to give money away, too!
- Of course, some of it comes across as quaintly out of date.