Meaning & use
quaintly
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In a way that is attractively unusual or old-fashioned.
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The cottage was quaintly decorated with antique furniture and lace curtains.
She spoke quaintly, using expressions that had gone out of fashion decades ago.
A note on using this word
From 'quaint,' which originally meant 'clever' or 'cunning' in Middle English before shifting to its modern sense of charming oddity.
Words with a similar meaning
charminglyold-fashionedly
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