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Recent Examples of tweedy
English cars have a tweedy character, Italian exotics can be fierce, but the French do a sort of wheeled quirkiness that's positively fizzing with zest.
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Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022
Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 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
Wear this tweedy green skirt suit and you’ll instantly be given the keys to a corner office.
—Talia Abbas, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2021
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Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022
Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 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
Wear this tweedy green skirt suit and you’ll instantly be given the keys to a corner office.
—Talia Abbas, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tweedy
Adjective
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The voice turned more professorial, clinical.—
Jon Michael Varese,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2025
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Restrepo, who was wearing professorial glasses and a dark suit, went first.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The comedy-drama, written by Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, follows Lorelai and her bookish daughter Rory (Bledel) in the quirky, charming small town of Stars Hollow, Conn.—
Anna Tingley,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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And yet Klein, in his distinctly bookish and measured approach, sometimes recalls an Obamian voice, if the former President had been a journalist with a beard, tattoos, and a predilection for Burning Man.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Following his turn as the nerdy and neurotic Michael, David Krumholtz continued his role as head elf Bernard in 2002's The Santa Clause 2, and reprised the part on an episode of the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses in 2022.—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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These two were both nerdy and sweet, and shared a certain endearing awkwardness.—
Sarah John,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
5 Oct. 2018
Adjective
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This collaboration spurred me to reflect on college newspapers and my own pedagogical approach as a librarian to media literacy.—
Joshua Finnell,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Oct. 2025
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But most of the podcast’s lineup reflects his pedagogical aims.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For true scholastic style, pair it with penny loafers or Mary Janes.—
Francesca Krempa,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Sep. 2025
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His family wasn’t shy about shouting out his scholastic achievements on social media.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Tweedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tweedy. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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