Translation for "quaintly" to german
Translation examples
adverb
She removes a key ring, quaintly mechanical, from her pocket, and fits a key into the door.)
Sie zieht einen malerisch mechanischen Schlüsselring aus der Tasche und steckt ihn ins Schloss der Tür.)
adverb
or, as the ancient Hellenes so quaintly put it, the earth’s navel.
oder, wie es die alten Griechen so urig ausdrückten, den Nabel der Erde.
adverb
His father, Jarvis Pennyworth, had been the family retainer, as such men were so quaintly called during the time of Bruce’s grandfather.
Sein Vater Jarvis Pennyworth war das „Familienfaktotum“ gewesen, wie man es in der Zeit von Bruce’ Großvater so originell genannt hatte.
adverb
Prince Hanse Davion's hunger for old Star League technology—what the unwashed have so quaintly labeled lostech—will bring him into direct conflict with us.
Prinz Hanse Davions Hunger nach der Technologie des alten Sternenbunds — nach dem, was die ungewaschenen Massen putzig als Lostech beschreiben — muß ihn in direkten Konflikt mit uns bringen.
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