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- adjective
comparative form oftweedy : moretweedy
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Examples
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Best known for his 1981 jungle-set novel "The Mosquito Coast" (made into a Harrison Ford film) and his train-travel memoirs (especially "The Great Railway Bazaar"), the scribe is often recognized in tweedier circles as a snob, a provocateur, a curmudgeon.
The Great Escapist Steve Garbarino 2011
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But the corporate naming game has different implications when it invades the tweedier precincts of campus.
Boola Moolah!Food Fight At Yale Eric Felten 2010
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But the corporate naming game has different implications when it invades the tweedier precincts of campus.
Boola Moolah!Food Fight At Yale Eric Felten 2010
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But the corporate naming game has different implications when it invades the tweedier precincts of campus.
Boola Moolah!Food Fight At Yale Eric Felten 2010
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Look for suits made from materials like silk, as opposed to chunky, tweedier threads: above: Chris Benz, fall '08 ready-to-wear, photo from style. com
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Your tweedier auto writers used to like to sit around bemoaning the idiocy of Wall Street and its single-minded focus on short-term results, to hell with the publicly-held car companies 'long-term prospects -- as expressed, for instance, in quaint matters like a firm's commitment to engineering and manufacturing excellence or, heaven forfend, the well-being of its workforce.
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In response, the other, older, tweedier woman lifted and wrist-waggled a package, several volumes thick, wrapped up in brown paper.
The Ruth Group 2009
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I expected someone older and tweedier, not the Johnny Rotten image he projected.
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