olde-worlde

/ ˈəʊldɪˈwɜːldɪ /

adjective

1. facetious.
   old-world or quaint

Example Sentences

Eggers’ film may be a more disciplined exercise than either Mother! or Suspiria, but its austere formalism and chilly religious inquiry did not win the approval of viewers hoping for jumpier olde-worlde antics; they weren’t much in the mood for its 400-year-old vernacular either.

From The Guardian

Yet when Michael Southwick, a handyman from Winlaton, near Newcastle, decided to find out more about this character with the olde-worlde name, he drew a blank.

From BBC

Cathedral City's appeal – to foreigners and Britons alike – is partly based on its packets being emblazoned with an olde-worlde church, and customers probably imagine the cheese is churned by godfearing monks in a monastery in some ancient English town.

From The Guardian

Not in a Wu Lyf way – they don't seem to be involved in a strategy of subterfuge and obfuscation, more that they'd like to retain some olde-worlde mystique.

From The Guardian

Frank Keating has ripped up the football-writing rule book and, instead of churning out a few hundred words of turgid knee-jerk prose on the Big Four like everyone else, has instead turned in a piece on the Wessex clubs using words like "romantics", "as a boy", "olde-worlde hotel" and "down-at-heel cafe".

From The Guardian