quaintness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Some of the quaintness of the ride has been lost, of course, as commercialism took root along the route.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Celebration promised a throwback quaintness, the way towns allegedly were.
From Salon • May 2, 2023
That is until, abruptly, the quaintness gives way to a more eclectic quilt of neighborhoods that could be any postindustrial city of the American Northeast.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022
Instead, we grin at the Lumière film’s charmingly calculated quaintness, which opened the door to today’s mass sensation of Disney’s Marvel Universe.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2022
This is what I have, coffee and pie, sitting in one of the purple booths, watching young people exclaim over what they think is the quaintness of the past.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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