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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
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Masud Husain is a professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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And Rachel Weisz is very professorial in all those gently eccentric power separates.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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For the uninitiated, author Donna Tartt is the undisputed queen of the ambient mystery with bookish flair.—
Madeline Hirsch,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
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Cepeda, a senator who participated in the Colombian government’s peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) about a decade earlier, is bookish, scripted and a bit uninspiring during campaign rallies.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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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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In Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s, university professors, especially those from Oxford and Cambridge, were esteemed not merely for their specialist knowledge or pedagogical value but for their wider contribution to civic life.—
Tim Bouverie,
Air Mail,
30 May 2026
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Program partners include the Durban FilmMart Institute and Central Film School, which in its role as advisory partner supports the program’s pedagogical approach and monitoring and evaluation processes.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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Though they’re meant to have graduated from UPenn and UMich, the characters in Not Suitable for Work could easily have gone to the fictional Essex College of The Sex Lives of College Girls and before that hung out with the nerdy teens of Never Have I Ever in high school.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
3 June 2026
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There’s also Margo’s roommate Susie (Thaddea Graham), a delightfully nerdy cosplayer who turns out to be the most steadfast support-giver in Margo’s life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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In a deliberately cheap-looking black-and-white faux-’50s horror movie, the comedy team of Tim & Eric (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) play nerdish mad scientists who capture and bring to their laboratory a dino-fish monster who looks like a chomping-jawed gill-man made of papier-mâché.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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Her work — rooted in teaching, scholastic research and mentoring — is continually focused on advancing social, racial and economic equity in secondary education classrooms.—
Larry D. Urish,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
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The team also captured the women’s scholastic championship.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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“Tweedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tweedy. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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