Definition for QUAINT'LY

QUAINT'LY, adv.

  1. Nicely; exactly; with petty neatness or spruceness; as, hair more quaintly curled. – B. Jonson.
  2. Artfully. Breathe his faults so quaintly. – Shak.
  3. Ingeniously; with dexterity. I quaintly stole a kiss. – Gay.

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