What's the difference between twee and tweed?

Twee


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
  • (2) By the time her debut album proper came out, nu rave had melted into the witchouse hipster scene and Charli turned her attentions to darkwave electro-pop: but her image and sound turned out to be too twee for the leftfield crowd and too postmodern for the pop scene.
  • (3) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
  • (4) I used to avoid watching Bake Off, thinking it twee, but I was scratching around for a new interest as this series rolled around – having started a mammoth stint off the booze.
  • (5) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
  • (6) And as for the healthy eating campaign , given that half the food sold in the US appears to be fashioned purely from E numbers and polystyrene, that's not a twee first lady hobby, that's humanitarian crisis work.
  • (7) "Only Britain," said Burns (another Aussie), "could make rape sound twee."
  • (8) It starts with these lines: When a language dies The divine things stars, sun and moon the human things thinking and feeling are no longer reflected in that mirror The poem is a little twee, granted, but the message couldn't be truer.
  • (9) Ti Va Zadou is a twee little guesthouse with four cosy bedrooms a five-minute walk from the little beach next to the port.
  • (10) The website is a curious affair – a sort of doggy dating site riddled with twee canine puns from “how to create a pawesome profile” to a section devoted to “waggy tales”.
  • (11) Their hearts won’t be wrenched asunder by baking tragedy, encapsulated by a lingering shot of some lumpy petits fours and ultimately soothed by plinky lullaby music and incidental twee.
  • (12) It's kind of a luxury rent-controlled ghetto for lawyers and barristers, and there is a beautiful tailors, a fine chapel, established by the Knights Templar (from which the compound takes its name), a twee cottage designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a rose garden; which I never promised you.
  • (13) Much has been made of millennials and our distain for the big, in favor of the small, the organic, the handcrafted, the twee, the old-time-y.
  • (14) Chic but not twee, the hotel is 30 minutes from Porto, close to the grandly be-churched town of Penafiel.
  • (15) Among the many twee exhibits at the museum are over 500 2D and 3D images of Santa, a mock storybook village depicting Christmas fairytales and Toyland Train Mountain, a three-tier, 30ft wide electric train set that encircles a tree decorated with over 3,000 festive ornaments.
  • (16) From the twee Match.com adverts featuring hipster-style couples to the cocktails served in jam jars at the trendy incomer bar the Albert in EastEnders, “the idea of the hipster has been swallowed up by the mainstream”, says Sanderson.
  • (17) "When I first saw Paro on YouTube I thought it was very twee," says Jepson, as she prepares to give me a demonstration.
  • (18) Only from the 1870s did Austen's critical fortunes revive, courtesy of a saccharine biography by her dull nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, and the twee chocolate-box illustrations of the Macmillan edition of her novels.
  • (19) The front, for example, is a twee, unnecessary Nigel Waymouth photo of Drake the Homely Folkie sitting moon-faced and dozy-eyed pouring over a Spanish guitar and fronted by a pair of “bumper”-styled brothel-creepers.
  • (20) For years, I had stupidly dismissed her books because of their rather twee jacket covers featuring blotches of paint and bucolic countryside scenes.

Tweed


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May says election results are about fighting for ‘best Brexit deal’ – video Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, praised the result in Northumberland as the north-east of England had not had a Conservative-run council for decades.
  • (3) Maybe poor old David Cameron might have fared a lot better had he dropped the “call me Dave” stuff and turned up to Downing Street in tweed plus-fours and a dead grouse under his arm.
  • (4) Perhaps old money has just taken to wearing Paul Smith jeans rather than Harris tweed .
  • (5) He was wearing a beautiful tweed jacket, which had a slightly high waistband and he looked so beautiful.
  • (6) After 12 years of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan, most people in the media were tired of aristocratic old men in tweed jackets.
  • (7) One side is all heavy-set coppers bursting out of their dark suits; the other home counties sorts in scarves and tweed, and David Davis.
  • (8) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
  • (9) He is wearing a pair of old tweed trousers, a yellow and blue T-shirt that says "Dada" and blue sandals.
  • (10) The protocol involves five steps: extraction of third molars because not useful in the orthodontic treatment, placement of a edgewise appliance following the Tweed technique, use of a neuromuscular deprogramming appliance, an orthopedic appliance associated with physiotherapy.
  • (11) For that, we analyse statistically the cephalometrics variations comparing the differents angles and measurements of the RICKETTS, TWEED and STEINER analyses before and after treatment.
  • (12) In a letter sent to Wallace, Tweed wrote that the politician made “an extremely serious, false and defamatory allegation” in a tweet.
  • (13) You might say Stephen Fry was a fogey (tweed jackets, always banging on about opera) but he is also an expert on smartphones , as he is on everything else.
  • (14) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
  • (15) Dissatisified with relapsing Class II cases, recurrence and aggravation of crowding, and what he felt were bimaxillary full faces, Tweed and others, circa 1935, redirected the profession back to extractions with a more disciplined approach to treatment by the removal of four first premolars.
  • (16) Mary, by email Well, plush tweeds and thick knits are absolutely essential.
  • (17) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
  • (18) Ilves was dressed in his trademark tweeds and bow tie, a counterpoint to his mission to make Estonia the most digitally progressive country in Europe .
  • (19) There was also a tendency to grey flannels and tweed jackets, and a "deplorable old raincoat".
  • (20) The male doctor wearing a tweed jacket and informal shirt and tie scored fewer low marks and this was therefore the least disliked of the outfits.