quaintly

IPA: kwˈeɪntɫi

Examples of "quaintly" in Sentences

He must see what was going on, and he mounted the rough sides of the little heathery knoll called quaintly Ben
"Why, he was the best amateur" (he pronounced the word quaintly and I loved him for it) "I ever see, or ever expect to see.
"Nick," he said (he pronounced the name quaintly, like Antoinette), "his good habits have turned out to be some advantage to you.
He sees me as "quaintly" considering Davis reliable; I "consider" — by implication, mistakenly — the Collier-Horowitz "effort" as solid and encompassing.
This is a term quaintly used by the learned M Pierre Muret to express the devouring of the dead by birds and animals or the surviving friends and relatives.
This is a term quaintly used by the learned M. Pierre M.ret to express the devouring of the dead by birds and animals or the surviving friends and relatives.
She was part of a "print pool" - a limited number of journalists at an event who represent their bigger hoard colleagues - which White House press officials still refer to quaintly as "pen and pad" reporting.
With what we used to call quaintly "foreign desks" closing all over the planet, and newspapers disinclined to pay even freelancers to cover stories because readers apparently aren't interested in "overseas news", the present situation as regards the paucity of international coverage is bad enough without us entertaining how woeful it might be in the future.