In a quaint manner.

Prettily; nicely; pleasantly; with neatness or trimness.

Fancifully; oddly; whimsically: curiously; especially, in an odd, old-fashioned way: as, quaintly dressed; quaintly expressed.

adverb. In a quaint manner.

adverb. In a quaint manner; oddly; strangely.

adverb. in a strange but not unpleasant manner

adverb. in a quaint old-fashioned manner

"This is a term quaintly used by the learned M. Pierre M.ret to express the devouring of the dead by birds and animals or the surviving friends and relatives."

faintly  saintly