15 example sentences using quaint.
Quaint used in a sentence
Quaint in a sentence as an adjective
It's actually a bit quaint and old fashioned.
You could move to a quaint coastal fishing village where you could sleep late, play with your grandchildren, watch ballgames, and take siesta with your wife.
Hug your local pirate; you won't be able to buy any major PC games in ten years because the notion of selling games will be quaint.
It isn't 'In the 21st century people couldn't imagine the universe could be curved, how terribly quaint!
Civil liberties are not just an ornament, or a quaint American tradition.
The zenith of 244 years of tradition, an emblem of the transition of our knowledge to an online space, and still very functional in a quaint way...
I suspect in a hundred years it'll be considered humorously quaint that we used to lump all these vocations together under "programmer" even though they don't fit.
The Woodbury towns out there are "charming little towns" rather than suburbs, because the rich people who live there have enough time to make zoning rules that keep a quaint little street or two alive.
We also forgot the reason why only congress was given the authority to declare war, which has become dead letter, and these ideas considered quaint and outdated.
If Rick Santorum becomes president, I think the eradication of porn from the Internet will be a quaint footnote compared to the other draconian things that'll come to pass.
Imagine then someone truly evil in charge of the NSA, and the power they could wield, unfettered by quaint notions of international law or oversight by other branches of government.
It can be quite humbling to realise how large a particular field is, but it in no way makes one an 'imposter'.Pro tip: Those 'Real Programmers' who's JS experiments make your CSS look quaint aren't the world's best programmers.
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A musician/artist having an intellectual idea that isn't completely terrible -- like a quaint little animal trying to imitate us true intellectuals up here in our high tower of superiority.
As for the location of her shop, she casually chose a quaint little shopping center in the heart of the most expensive and historically rich neighborhood in the entire surrounding metropolitan area and possibly the whole state.
Quaint definitions
strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
See also: old-time