quainter

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A form of quaint — Of a person: cunning, crafty.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjective
  1. comparativecomparative form of quaint: more quaint

    Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).

    1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225

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