Etymology
Origin of wiredrawn
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He fails to make it either straightforward or appropriate, and declines into the super-subtle or wiredrawn.
From Adonais by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
The other letter consists of the usual wiredrawn argument for fatalism.
From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
By which last wiredrawn similitude does Teufelsdröckh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call ‘getting under way’?
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
