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twee [twi:] ADJ esp Brit inf pej

twee
twee

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It may sound twee, but if you feel upset and guilty about hurting others, admit to your wrongs and apologise for them.
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The boys find themselves forced to live inside a twee version of their own miserable lives, complete with canned laughter and colourful sets.
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Overblown ideas, heavily saturated sounds and unbearably twee hooks manifest in 12 tracks of arrogant, vacuous, cheesy dancefloor fillers.
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In fact, the anger you feel toward twee things is inversely proportional to the provocativeness of the thing itself.
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Twee is pervasive, genteel and hard to bear, pixie-haired, wide-eyed and precocious.
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It's quirky without being twee, modern without being cold, and put together in a way that sees aesthetics complement comfort.
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Critics deride her expanding empire as the victory of twee.
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It's twee, tries to hard, and has little to no substance.
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They may look twee but they have political significance.
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In later episodes, new, colour drawings replaced these, though they still depicted suspicious looking villagers in twee surroundings.
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