quaintly

How To Use quaintly In A Sentence

• On the other hand, this site says 'Blouse' has for 300 years or more been English slang for a very unseemly woman, from 'blowze', which was slang for a slovenly woman, prostitute or 'beggars wench' as the OED quaintly puts it. Pen-Elayne on the Web
• They were emotionally troubled, or socially maladjusted, or marginal in some more or less unattractive way, or quaintly anachronistic.
• Stuffing, inevitably, was something that Davis was pretty familiar with, for in what he quaintly refers to as his ‘downtime’, he likes nothing more than to pootle away at his taxidermy.
• Review the sleeping set-up: bigger beds for couples, quaintly called camas de matrimonio, can be harder to come by. Tripso.com
• There was a great white and gold fireplace and even a little gilded coffee table with a silver tea set sitting quaintly in the centre of the room.
• Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens.
• They are what I call appetizing," she said quaintly. Mistress Anne
• At the photo shoot he quaintly refuses to roll up his sleeves for fear of scuffing them up. Professor Green: 'Lily Allen put me back on my feet'
• After a quaintly melodious prelude the third part opens with a terzetto and chorus ( "Thus Nature ever kind rewards"), an invocation to virtue and industry, and a quaintly sentimental duet ( "Ye gay and painted Fair"). The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
• This was where your mother's "interest" in what you so quaintly refer to as biogenetics came from. Black Blade