Definitionadv. in a strange but not unpleasant manner
Last update: September 9, 2015
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When the effort to restrain feeling is exhibited in a degree which surprises as well as pleases, it excites admiration as a virtue or excellence; such excellences Adam Smith quaintly calls the " awful and respectable," contrasting them with the " amiable virtues " which consist in the opposite effort to sympathize, when exhibited in a remarkable degree. [Please select]
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"I see," the lady replied, looking up at him quaintly. [Please select]
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Whereupon a quaintly novel thing took place, at the sight of which the duke barely escaped opening his eyes very wide indeed. [Please select]
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Esther here returned, bringing a number of rolls carefully enveloped in dark-brown linen lettered quaintly in gold. [Please select]
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The man looked quaintly wistful, the temptation of an audience hot upon him; a door shut upstairs, and he fell. [Please select]
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You entered the room with a look and air at once shy and independent: you were quaintly dressedmuch as you are now. [Please select]
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