How To Use Quaintly In A Sentence
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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
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They were emotionally troubled, or socially maladjusted, or marginal in some more or less unattractive way, or quaintly anachronistic.
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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.
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Review the sleeping set-up: bigger beds for couples, quaintly called camas de matrimonio, can be harder to come by.
Tripso.com
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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.
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Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens.
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They are what I call appetizing," she said quaintly.
Mistress Anne
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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'
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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
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This was where your mother's "interest" in what you so quaintly refer to as biogenetics came from.
Black Blade
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This may seem a quaintly old-fashioned idea.
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The well-to-do stared through their lorgnettes in delight at quaintly dressed fisherfolk and their families.
Times, Sunday Times
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The later ethnological misuse of ARYAN to signify not spiritual, but physical, characteristics, led the great Orientalist, Max Muller, to say quaintly: “To me an ethnologist who speaks of an Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.”
Autobiography of a Yogi
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Check out this quaintly ergonomic coffee cup-holder built into the arm of a chair.
Archive 2006-08-01
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Except for the two-legged Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid's eternal rival, Barcelona, the rest of these matches are what soccer quaintly calls friendlies.
Real Madrid's Summer Road Trip
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Posters now appear quaintly old-fashioned, something to be collected rather than made.
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Of course, some of it comes across as quaintly out of date.
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White rooftops cluster quaintly against the lower slopes.
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Yet it is not simply black and white that must be made valuable, rare worth must be given to each colour employed; but the white and black ought to separate themselves quaintly from the rest, while the other colours should be continually passing one into the other, being all plainly companions in the same gay world; while the white, black, and neutral grey should stand monkishly aloof in the midst of them.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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He quaintly refers to the Wachowskis as 'the boys'.
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the old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly
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It is built on seven hills and sits around a beautiful harbour in the quaintly named Puddefjord, best viewed from the funicular railway that takes you more than 1,000 ft above the city.
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Quaintly panda software antivirus throughput are oftentimes in department when the telpher hatpin to qoph anaphrodisia or to finder its dracunculus for that lubricious end.
Rational Review
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The cast of characters includes a nebbishy analyst, a touch so quaintly anachronistic as to make you wonder where Mr. Allen has been for the past quarter-century.
You Hear the One About the Hunchback?
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Covent Garden, the child stepping blithely by my side, graceful even then, notwithstanding her immatureness, and quaintly attractive, though her deep blue eyes were full of tears, and the white terror had not passed wholly from her face.
The Master Mummer
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In the past ten years a chasm has opened up between the workaholics and the quaintly named 'work-shy'.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have enough experience of the quaintly masochistic business of fell-walking to be scared when appropriate.
Times, Sunday Times
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They thought waterboarding or "dunking" as they quaintly called it, would prove if someone were a witch or a warlock.
Bush, Cheney, Gonzo, Bill-O Set to Prove Torture Works on Live TV
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He became almost quaintly obsolete, like the handle crank on the automobile.
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I have enough experience of the quaintly masochistic business of fell-walking to be scared when appropriate.
Times, Sunday Times
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As one writer of the period quaintly puts it, "The gospel spirit is not yet so gloriously arisen as to seek them more than theirs," while another in stronger terms affirms, "To the shame of the Christian name, no pains have ever been taken to convert them to Christianity; on the contrary, their morals are perverted and corrupted by the sad example they daily have of its depraved professors residing in their towns.
Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina
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It is true that there are some annoying cases of delay-what the Canadians quaintly call "queuing" - which is a problem that Americans simply won't tolerate, and for which there is a logical market solution.
Political Class Dismissed
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We discover that artists' studios range from ultramodern to quaintly rural.
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'Occasional Supper Clubs', as they have been quaintly dubbed, are clandestine gatherings of food-fanciers.
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The primary rooms had festoons of "blockwork," and under an awning made from a bright patchwork quilt, made by them, hung their dainty pockets, tidies, scarfs, etc., quaintly outlined in bright needlework.
The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 7, July, 1894
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The food was all served in bowls and jugs of quaintly beautiful ancient cliff-dweller pottery.
Bloom of Cactus
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The county is less than 20 miles across, and so quaintly quirkish that most people can't even remember if it exists.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
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The report quaintly states that he pushed gently past the policeman and was gently arrested.
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Unless you count the gourmet horse burgers sold from the quaintly grubby vans dotted near the stadium.
The Sun
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The menu still refers, quaintly, to feathered and furred game, mostly brought down from the restaurant's own game estate in the high Pennines.
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I branch off into the residential area, passing dozens of quaintly named, chocolate-box cottages.
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“Old!” exclaimed the knight; “now, by the gods and saints, if there be a gallant at the British Court more fancifully considerate, and more considerately fanciful, but quaintly curious, and more curiously quaint, in frequent changes of all rich articles of vesture, becoming one who may be accounted point-device a courtier, I will give you leave to term me a slave and a liar.”
The Monastery
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Through the summer, you'll barely turn a corner without seeing a Highland Games, with the skirl of the bagpipes, tug-o'-war, races and what they quaintly call heavy events’ - throwing lumps of metal and tossing the caber.
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Rational Review
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His clothes - a Fair Isle pullover and collarless white shirt - were quaintly old-fashioned.
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TO the books of the monastery some human interest clings: we can at once conjure up a picture of the cloister and the scribe at his work; the handling of an old manuscript, the turning over of finely-written and quaintly-illuminated yellow pages, throws the mind flashing back centuries to the silent writer in his carrell.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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However, rape, sexual violation, and incest are not crimes that are now quaintly foreign or out of date in Aotearoa today, alas.
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the room was quaintly furnished
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The word tush occurs frequently and quaintly: "Tush I an sure to fail;
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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While it looks quaintly ancient on the outside, the bedrooms would sit just as easily in any fashionable city boutique hotel.
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She did not whisper the intimate details of her honeymoon to other young married women; she did not run about quaintly and tinily telling her difficulties with household work.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
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Quaintly, it can be lucky to give money away, too!
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Among those who remained faithful were Lord LAMBOURNE (in the Peers 'Gallery), who had for this occasion substituted a posy of primroses for his usual picotee, and, quaintly enough, Mr. HOGGE, who had not hitherto been suspected of Disraelian sympathies.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
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He is always "roading", as he calls it, down the criss-crossing tracks that quaintly preserve their A-road designations.
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
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We arrived at our hotel, quaintly named 'The Cleopatra'.
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The quaintly named Mariner's Haven is a new development from the house builders Local Homes.
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One of these oddities was the quaintly titled Piccadilly House.
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Similarly, Darcy's music privileges a quaintly macabre sensibility; there's an echo of Appalachian murder ballads and maudlin clipper-ship shanties.
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Rocks that are cruel and relentless as the surges that sweep over them in stormy weather, and which are so quaintly named from their helmet, or "casque" - like resemblance -- rocks, concerning which the poet Swinburne has sung in his eloquent verse, that breathes the very spirit of the sea in depicting the strife of the elements:
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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In any popular contest between what he quaintly calls 'monarchist' and his own liking, 'revolution', monarchism would win hands down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The later ethnological misuse of ARYAN to signify not spiritual, but physical, characteristics, led the great Orientalist, Max Muller, to say quaintly: "To me an ethnologist who speaks of an Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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The Peppermints specialize in a deliberately amateurish, almost quaintly anachronistic form of self-described "barfy" DIY punk.
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It is not, however, only white and black which you must make valuable; you must give rare worth to every colour you use; but the white and black ought to separate themselves quaintly from the rest, while the other colours should be continually passing one into the other, being all evidently companions in the same gay world; while the white, black, and neutral grey should stand monkishly aloof in the midst of them.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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The Government is spending $11 .7 million walling itself in in the national Parliament in a project the bureaucracy quaintly calls "security enhancement".
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On their sprawling homesteads and in their citified saloons, each well-armed Pallatian cultivates a folksy accent and tinkers with quaintly Victorian machinery.