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  • noun The quality or state of being twee.

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Examples

  • Here we get a fair dose of reality mixed in with great British comedy and lastly we get the romance with very little "tweeness" added in.

    Filmstalker: The best baby films 2009

  • There's lots on local history and guides for visitors to the island, and the gifts – mainly locally produced arts and crafts – are refreshingly free of tweeness.

    Independent bookshops in Wales 2011

  • And, while I'm at it, I also suffered an additional albeit more subjective rage at the sheer dreary tweeness of the cover.

    Heaven knows I'm miserable over this John Lewis ad 2011

  • This isn't one for anyone who abhors tweeness, but its sweet nature helps to brighten bleak midwinter.

    Mull Historical Society: City Awakenings – review 2012

  • PS Never able to get through the tweeness of "The Little Prince."

    "Janet! Donkeys!" Roger Sutton 2006

  • If there could be a trump card for Carl Morris it would have a rating of 0/10 for tweeness.

    Pidgin Stryd | Quixotic Quisling 2008

  • Put another way: it's the underlying racism of Anderson's films that troubles me way more than his tweeness, quirk, preciousness, or emotional sterility.

    A Public Service Announcement Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • Then there are some more significant acts like XTC, Graham Parker, The Soft Boys and Psychedelic Furs, all of whom have a formidable library of great songs, but might not be quite up your alley for one reason or another: abrasive vocalists, flaming lefty lyrics, general tweeness, etc.

    Taking music recommendations 2005

  • I put up with the tweeness of Rita Mae Brown's MURDER, SHE MEOWED, since I wanted something I knew would have the kind of resolution I was looking for and I do like all the horse-talk.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

  • In a recent article in The Washington Post, Sarah Kaufman writes of the "pervading tweeness" of "The Nutcracker," wishes that "ballet had something better to do at this time of year than endlessly reminisce like a sweet, whiskery auntie," and argues that the work's

    NYT > Home Page By ALASTAIR MACAULAY 2011

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