Sentence examples for Less quaint from inspiring English sources

In a hotel, the traditions are far less quaint.

But things do get less quaint on the other islands.

The reports look less quaint than the old-fashioned pasted variety.

The editor, Maria Guarnaschelli, strived for a tone that was more instructional and less quaint.

But the city then spreads out into the less quaint: rock quarries, hideous slums, paddy fields, clusters of factories.

But Jaffe's 1958 novel told the story from a gimlet-eyed female perspective that today seems less quaint than you might have expected.

I suppose if one lived there, one might get used to the noise, but to a visitor, the resulting din is less a quaint tradition than a deafening impediment to a good night's sleep.

Even "Pamela," prudish and didactic as it is, feels far less limited or quaint than we might expect.

Every August, the town of Cobh in East Cork, Ireland, starts to look less like a quaint seaport village and more like a playroom ball pit gone awry, as thousands of brightly coloured balls bounce down the cobblestone streets in one of the world's quirkiest lotteries.

IN the cozy corporate lingo of Starbucks, the java-servers in company baseball caps and green aprons are so far evolved from folks who, in quainter, less caffeinated and less linguistically sensitive times, were dubbed soda jerks, that the coffee chain graces them with a special name: baristas.

With that in mind, his remarks seem less reprehensible than rather quaint.