twee
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9.1
- adjective
- /twiː/
:
excesivamente cursi
- The film was criticized for being overly twee, filled with sentimental moments that felt forced.
- too twee
Examples
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It was pretty but not twee, foreign but still familiar, and by and large, the people we met there were lovely.
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On paper, this might look twee and annoying, but it's mostly annoying because it sounds fun and you'll never do it.
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It's very sweet and a little bit twee.
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I would say right now I ride the medium of cash, jeans and twee outfits to a tee.
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To further convince you, you may also enjoy the podcast, which is somewhere between knowingly cute and annoyingly twee, but on the good side of that line.
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I feel like it has some Wes Anderson-y vibes, only less twee and much more interesting (to me).
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Sure, some are rather cute and fetching, but most I’d seen skewed a bit too twee.
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Still clutching her basket, she felt her way carefully down the stairs, glad now of the slightly twee guiding rope which at least stopped her from breaking her neck in the impenetrable darkness.
Fiction book (1995) -
Rather than dismissing me for being a dilettante, the worst anyone did was overlook the publications which they considered too twee; counting the remainder, I still looked fine.
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Of course it includes David Bowie's "Little Drummer Boy," and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' "Christmas Everyday," but the number one song you're gonna need, and trust me, I know this sounds a little bit twee...
Synonyms
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7.0
Too emotional in a way that feels silly or fake
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7.2
To try to seem very sweet and childish in a fake way
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9.9
Being too cute and childish in a sweet, exaggerated way
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3.9
Too sweet in taste or too emotional in style
A very sweet old-fashioned style that feels too cute and not natural
Too careful about manners in an obvious fake way
Speaking or moving in a small, careful way to seem more refined than they are
Too cute in a silly or fake way
Too sweet and sentimental in tone or style
Too emotional and sweet in a way that feels fake
Too sweet and emotional so it feels false
Being too emotional in a cheap, false way
Having small decorative details that are unnecessary
Antonyms
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Etymology
Twee comes from a child's way of saying sweet — a baby might say 'sweet' as 'twee'. So twee grew to mean something that is 'too cute' or 'too emotional'.