twee

Example Sentences

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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

But when Emily visits Stephanie, who’s locked away in her hotel room on house arrest like a twee Rapunzel, it becomes clear that the players have been miscounted.

From Salon • May 3, 2025

Despite its heavy subject matter, We Live In Time has been praised as "life-affirming", although other critics have described it as "positively twee".

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024

July’s work has frequently been described as whimsical or twee, but those adjectives can’t convey the molten core of this book, which is at once hilarious and dead serious.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

She liked the way he said locate, all twee, like a schoolmaster.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray