twee
/twiː/
US pronunciation
American sound/twiː/
twee
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
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- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Long vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> twee
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- ‘‘It is the the most twee and vulgar thing I have ever seen in my life, ’ he said.’
- ‘It felt twee and tried to be overly sentimental which didn't work because I didn't feel any closeness towards any of the characters.’
- ‘The restaurant is spacious and pretty without being twee and the adjoining low-ceilinged pub is comfy, cosy and welcoming.’
- ‘There is a clear affinity between actor and character that spills over into the sunny nature of a film that could so easily have seemed twee or sugar-coated.’
- ‘It just sounds too twee, too English, too old-fashioned.’
- ‘Cosy can mean both warm and comforting or irritatingly twee and conventional, even sentimental and kitsch: the German gemtlich.’
- ‘It's this cavalcade of architectural styles, all stopping around 1850, that the critics deride for being twee.’
- ‘But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness.’
- ‘The designs are quirky and the techniques innovative, distinguishing them from the twee associations that craft and knitwear often suffer from.’
- ‘By another strange twist of fortune, sweets seem to be creeping up - market again with the recent flowering of twee shops on heritage high streets.’
- ‘The presumption people have when they see a toile is that it's going to be full of shepherdesses leading sheep up garden paths and they expect it to be rather on the twee side.’
- ‘The shops are twee and cute and sell a million varieties of soap; you could browse for a lifetime upgrading your T-shirt collection.’
- ‘The one ride I know that is incredibly twee and sweet is called ‘Its a Small World’.’
- ‘However I'm conscious of not wanting to sound twee, and I'd been practicing every night so I felt really prepared to do my own thing.’
- ‘Disturbingly, it's from some twee site devoted to British Sixties culture…’
- ‘Structure-wise it's incredibly flawed, the climax is rushed, the middle is confused, and the beginning is painfully twee.’
- ‘I mean, come on: this was going to be some insufferably twee tale about the friendship between two feisty old biddies.’
- ‘I didn't want to make nice, twee little paintings.’
- ‘Not all of them will convert into nice twee homes.’
- ‘I thought when I first started the book that this mechanism was going to make it a bit twee, and perhaps repetitive and dull, but this is absolutely not the case.’
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