tweedy
Americanadjective
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made of or resembling tweed, as in texture, appearance, or the like.
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wearing or favoring tweeds, especially as a mark of a casual, sporty, or intellectual way of life, as at college or in the country.
a tweedy sportswoman.
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accustomed to, preferring, or characterized by the wearing of tweeds, as in genteel country life or academia.
a large and tweedy colony of civil servants and government officials.
adjective
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of, made of, or resembling tweed
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showing a fondness for a hearty outdoor life, usually associated with wearers of tweeds
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In “Sherlock & Daughter,” Thewlis’ cranky, clipped performance spells out why so few venture to peel back the tweedy front he places between himself and everyone else.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
With its mixture of tweedy understatement and strong feelings, it showed Queen Elizabeth having to adjust to changed times, filling in the unspoken gaps, in a way that humanised the Royal Family.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
As an editor, Mr. Angell was a tweedy, unhurried presence known for his ability to identify new talent and to sharpen the prose of established writers.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
Freak is all dressed up, too, he's wearing this tweedy new suit jacket that has patches on the elbows and Grim says all he needs is a pipe and he'll look like quite the professor.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
As Dwight Garner wrote for Salon at the time, the drawn-out process provoked as much anxiety, secrecy, envy, electioneering, and backbiting as an Oscars campaign, only on a smaller and tweedier scale.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2017
Change is also afoot at Esquire, the tweediest of the men’s titles, which for decades carried a whiff of dad’s old cedar chest full of pocketknives and Mickey Mantle baseball cards.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2019
Once the province of only the tweediest British country gentlemen, custom-made shotguns have become a preferred extravagance of the rich, famous and hip.
From Forbes ● Oct. 19, 2010
For daytime wear, Artist Belcher chose the tweediest of hunting tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock.
From Time Magazine Archive
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