Quaintly is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Quaintly meaning
In a quaint manner; oddly; strangely.
Using Quaintly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a quaint manner; oddly; strangely.
Context around Quaintly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quaintly
- In this selection, "quaintly" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, british, paradoxical and unmistakable stand out and add context to how "quaintly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include followed by quaintly british with and got the quaintly unmistakable impression. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quaintly" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quaintly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Courtyard Interiors took the top prize, followed by Quaintly British, with Ismay's Fashions winning the public vote. (18 words)
One also got the quaintly unmistakable impression that Accra Hearts of Oak is the Entertainment Wing of the present main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). (25 words)
He invented a well-known mathematical artifact, the ingenious numbering rods more quaintly known as “Napier's bones,” that offered mechanical means for facilitating computation. (25 words)
And so it would be quaintly paradoxical if it turned out the key to generating our Olympic legacy was to trap us in our own homes with no sport to watch. (31 words)
One also got the quaintly unmistakable impression that Accra Hearts of Oak is the Entertainment Wing of the present main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). (25 words)
He invented a well-known mathematical artifact, the ingenious numbering rods more quaintly known as “Napier's bones,” that offered mechanical means for facilitating computation. (25 words)
Example sentences (4)
Courtyard Interiors took the top prize, followed by Quaintly British, with Ismay's Fashions winning the public vote.
And so it would be quaintly paradoxical if it turned out the key to generating our Olympic legacy was to trap us in our own homes with no sport to watch.
One also got the quaintly unmistakable impression that Accra Hearts of Oak is the Entertainment Wing of the present main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He invented a well-known mathematical artifact, the ingenious numbering rods more quaintly known as “Napier's bones,” that offered mechanical means for facilitating computation.