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QUAINTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quaintly mean? 

QUAINTLY (adverb)
  The adverb QUAINTLY has 2 senses:

1. in a strange but not unpleasant mannerplay

2. in a quaint old-fashioned mannerplay

  Familiarity information: QUAINTLY used as an adverb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUAINTLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a strange but not unpleasant manner

Context example:

the old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly

Pertainym:

quaint (strange in an interesting or pleasing way)


Sense 2

Meaning:

In a quaint old-fashioned manner

Context example:

the room was quaintly furnished

Pertainym:

quaint (attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic))


 Context examples 


You entered the room with a look and air at once shy and independent: you were quaintly dressed—much as you are now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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