| They were emotionally troubled, or socially maladjusted, or marginal in some more or less unattractive way, or quaintly anachronistic. |
| I branch off into the residential area, passing dozens of quaintly named, chocolate-box cottages. |
| The report quaintly states that he pushed gently past the policeman and was gently arrested. |
| The menu still refers, quaintly, to feathered and furred game, mostly brought down from the restaurant's own game estate in the high Pennines. |
| As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards. |
| Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens. |
