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  • adjective comparative form of tweedy: more tweedy

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Lesley M. M. Blume: Fall's 5 Key Looks: A Cheat Sheet 2008

  • 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.

    Jamie Lincoln Kitman: Chrysler At The Gates Of Hell 2008

  • 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

  • I expected someone older and tweedier, not the Johnny Rotten image he projected.

    Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist 2009

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