tweedy

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Recent Examples of tweedy Under various pseudonyms, Mr. Higgins wrote the kind of stories easily — some would say too easily — dismissed by tweedy English professors. New York Times, 10 Apr. 2022 And speaking of getting back to business, there’s a tweedy Isabel Marant Etoile blazer that’ll do the job nicely. Julie Tong, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2021 Guests including Chanel-regulars Lily Allen, Kristine Froseth, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Phoebe Tonkin, and Rebecca Dayan were all present and bedecked in tweedy Chanel coats and blazers. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 6 Nov. 2021 Wear this tweedy green skirt suit and you’ll instantly be given the keys to a corner office. Talia Abbas, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2021 See All Example Sentences for tweedy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tweedy
Adjective
  • His conversational style in interviews is pensive and soft-spoken, almost professorial, which hooked up to the note of insistence just underneath the angel-cake vocal beauty.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
  • After leaving her professorial position, Darcy started sharing free, educational content on OnlyFans and YouTube.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The story is about a bookish Black girl, in love with English literature (and the emotionally indecipherable white professor teaching it) at a predominantly white university in 1949, losing her childhood illusions — and then, in a gothic twist, losing much more.
    Scott Brown, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Bryce Young is bookish, too.
    Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Most people do this at home, but Barnes’s stridently symmetrical arrangements—big artworks in the middle, smaller ones to either side, formal echoes bouncing around the room—were emphatically pedagogical.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Barnes first tested Dewey’s pedagogical ideas on his factory workers, engaging them in weekly seminars to look at art and discuss philosophical texts.
    Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Listen to this article An Aurora seventh grader achieved a scholastic twofer last week, winning Denver’s regional science fair and the Colorado state spelling bee in a six-day span.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Sanders won the 2024 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, which is given to the nation’s top quarterback who best exemplifies character, scholastic and athletic achievement.
    Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Tweedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tweedy. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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