Quaint
Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
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Quaint Quotations
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
Stephen Sondheim
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
Thomas Hardy
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
Mitch Daniels
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
Jay Weatherill
Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
Mark Davis
Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
Frederick Pollock
Quaint Translations
quaint in Dutch is typisch, curieus, vreemd
quaint in Finnish is kummallinen
quaint in German is wunderlich, wunderlichen, anheimelnd
quaint in Norwegian is eiendommelig, underlig
quaint in Swedish is gammalmodig, egen
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