(a.) Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
(a.) Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
(2) That merriment is not just tankards and quaintness and mimsy Morris dancing, but a witty, angry and tender fire at the centre of Englishness.
(3) From the quaint market towns to the rolling countryside, this county is one of the many jewels in Great Britain’s crown,” he said.
(4) At the advent of the web, Yahoo quaintly believed it could use editors to catalogue all the content online, but quickly learned that that wouldn't scale, as we say these days.
(5) John Howard livened up the morning by observing that Tony Abbott's knights and dames initiative was so quaintly olde world that not even he would have gone there.
(6) He knew that if he backed away from calling an election, he'd be accused of turning 'frit' - to use that quaint old Lincolnshire word of Margaret Thatcher's - in the face of the opinion polls and a resurgent Conservative party.
(7) Photograph: Alamy With no fewer than four beaches to choose from and a quaint town centre of ice-cream coloured houses and shops, Tenby is an appealing spot for a day at the seaside.
(8) At that time X----- itself was untouched by shot and shell, the old houses in the square with their quaint red-tiled roofs, irregular as peaks of a sierra, and their higgledy-piggledy doors and windows, were as yet intact.
(9) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(10) Quaintly, his second album still riffs on the idea of tertiary education (his first was The College Dropout ).
(11) The problem with news is not a quaint moral cowardice.
(12) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
(13) Gillard occupied the office she quaintly terms the gumnut room.
(14) "Nursing" as a verb, like adjudge, is one of football's more quaint usages that we should do more to encourage.
(15) The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl.
(16) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
(17) Quaint language and interesting historical associations are no justification for preserving obsolete statutes in a mummified state.
(18) This will leave the court divided four to four, paralyzed, in all probability, which is clearly nothing that perturbs these persons still quaintly referred to as lawmakers.
(19) Its quaint name makes you wonder if pupils practise deportment and learn the correct way to address younger sons of dukes.
(20) At the school gate, the other women looked somehow quaint.
Whimsy
Definition:
(n.) A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
(n.) A whim.
(n.) A whimsey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
(2) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen".
(4) Having to work with real life events keeps him from the shark-jumping flights of whimsy he employs elsewhere in his oeuvre.
(5) Each floor has been shaped by a different team of designers - Cibic and Partners, Stanton Williams, Eldridge Smerin and Future Systems - adding a touch of near-gravity here, whimsy there and pure theatre elsewhere.
(6) "It's very important to hold on to our whimsy," he says when I ask him about it.
(7) However, Keating's highly contrived plots and acute sense of whimsy failed to find favour in the US.
(8) Whenever his writing threatens to descend into the period's standard responses of disdain or whimsy, his ear catches the unique accent of an ordinary voice and elevates it to the dignity of print.
(9) But the narrative skips along, lightened by jokes and whimsies.
(10) Under the new name Mumford & Sons (a bit of nu-folk whimsy: no blood relations here), their earliest gigs, remembers Lovett, "were awful.
(11) Alice has all the makings of a long-term classic: a bold, funny and mercifully whimsy-free take on Lewis Carroll, accompanied by the fizzing musical panache of Joby Talbot’s score.
(12) At the same time, he largely dispensed with his breathless, gossamer sentences, which often teetered on the brink of preciousness and whimsy, and ushered in a style that was much leaner and more sinewy: "Dick!
(13) Her father was a country doctor who had seen his share of death and who liked to say there were only three subjects for art: sex, death and whimsy.
(14) The Edwardian classic by Lucy Maud Montgomery about a feisty, freckled orphan girl sent to live on the island unsurprisingly features heavily in PEI's tourist industry promotions, such that some shops resort to having Anne-free zones to lure visitors wearied of the whimsy.
(15) Amelie The Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades northern California cool for Montmartre whimsy when it offers this musical, adapted from the Jean-Pierre Jeunet film.
(16) When in the mid- 1930s he went to Mousehole, the Cornish fishing village, to pursue primitive realism, it was because "I could see in it Rousseau, Modigliani, Bonnard and Matisse – these painters had more meaning for me than the whimsy of Paul Klee" (Dylan Thomas liked Klee).
(17) For all the lovers of his whimsy, there are equally ardent critics.
(18) (Second place in that poll are the Dresden Dolls, but I guess MLB wasn't big on pretentious open letters and forced whimsy.)
(19) I caught my breath and took a seat, giving up on any whimsy about first class.
(20) Industry insiders I talked to thought the next generation of comics would bring in a new era of whimsy and mild observation.