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tweedy
[ twee-dee ]
adjective
- made of or resembling tweed, as in texture, appearance, or the like.
- 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.
- 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.
tweedy
/ ˈtwiːdɪ /
adjective
- of, made of, or resembling tweed
- showing a fondness for a hearty outdoor life, usually associated with wearers of tweeds
Derived Forms
- ˈtweediness, noun
Other Words From
- tweedi·ness noun
Example Sentences
Pretty is played here, with tweedy purposefulness, by Carey Mulligan.
Mike Tweedy, a government employee in Georgia, resolved to leave Mormonism in 2007.
“It used to be that you could not research these things adequately,” Tweedy told me.
Tweedy had gone online to research a small discrepancy in a pair of Mormon texts.
He was the kind of Ole Miss graduate who came out so studiedly tweedy that he made Harvard Law men look flamboyant.
In 1997, Jeff Tweedy introduced “Color Me Impressed” by saying, “Everything we do is based on the Replacements.”
The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).
A bend flory and counterflory will be found in the arms of Fellows, a quartering of Tweedy.
Wherever a Veitch and a Tweedy met, they fought, and fought to kill.
Same house as Molly's namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford.
Pride of Calpe's rocky mount, the ravenhaired daughter of Tweedy.
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