wiredrawn

American

[wahyuhr-drawn] / ˈwaɪərˌdrɔn /

adjective

drawn out long and thin like a wire.
(of ideas, comparisons, etc.) finely spun; extremely intricate; minute.

Etymology

Origin of wiredrawn

First recorded in 1595–1605; wire + drawn

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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 Thomas Carlyle

The other letter consists of the usual wiredrawn argument for fatalism.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He fails to make it either straightforward or appropriate, and declines into the super-subtle or wiredrawn.

From Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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