Unenterprising

Definition

twee /twi:/ adj ( Brit infml derog ) ႏုလြန္း၊ ႏြဲ႕လြန္း၊ ခြၽဲလြန္းေသာ။ wallpaper with a twee design of shepherdesses and pink ribbon.

Examples

1. ‘‘It is the the most twee and vulgar thing I have ever seen in my life
2. ’ he said.’
3. ‘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.’
4. ‘The restaurant is spacious and pretty without being twee and the adjoining low-ceilinged pub is comfy
5. cosy and welcoming.’
6. ‘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.’
7. ‘It just sounds too twee
8. too English
9. too old-fashioned.’
10. ‘Cosy can mean both warm and comforting or irritatingly twee and conventional
11. even sentimental and kitsch: the German gemtlich.’
12. ‘It's this cavalcade of architectural styles
13. all stopping around 1850
14. that the critics deride for being twee.’
15. ‘But don't assume that open wood and peat-burning fires translate into twee and chintzy cosiness.’
16. ‘The designs are quirky and the techniques innovative
17. distinguishing them from the twee associations that craft and knitwear often suffer from.’
18. ‘By another strange twist of fortune
19. sweets seem to be creeping up - market again with the recent flowering of twee shops on heritage high streets.’
20. ‘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.’
21. ‘The shops are twee and cute and sell a million varieties of soap; you could browse for a lifetime upgrading your T-shirt collection.’
22. ‘The one ride I know that is incredibly twee and sweet is called ‘Its a Small World’.’
23. ‘However I'm conscious of not wanting to sound twee
24. and I'd been practicing every night so I felt really prepared to do my own thing.’
25. ‘Disturbingly
26. it's from some twee site devoted to British Sixties culture…’
27. ‘Structure-wise it's incredibly flawed
28. the climax is rushed
29. the middle is confused
30. and the beginning is painfully twee.’
31. ‘I mean
32. come on: this was going to be some insufferably twee tale about the friendship between two feisty old biddies.’
33. ‘I didn't want to make nice
34. twee little paintings.’
35. ‘Not all of them will convert into nice twee homes.’
36. ‘I thought when I first started the book that this mechanism was going to make it a bit twee
37. and perhaps repetitive and dull
38. but this is absolutely not the case.’