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  • adverb In a twee manner.

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Examples

  • And here we have it: this year's Man Booker longlist - the "Booker dozen", as it is whimsically, not to say tweely, known.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Google has said that a new version of Android, the tweely-named Cupcake, will arrive in April.

    unknown title 2009

  • Second, the performance is tweely androgynous, to an extent beyond belief.

    Taipei Times 2008

  • Second, the performance is tweely androgynous, to an extent beyond belief.

    Taipei Times 2008

  • Second, the performance is tweely androgynous, to an extent beyond belief.

    Taipei Times 2008

  • I think it’s also important and darn fascinating to pay attention when a bona fide cultural phenomenon is prancing tweely across your radar.

    Why Juno Is Loathsome 2008

  • I think it’s also important and darn fascinating to pay attention when a bona fide cultural phenomenon is prancing tweely across your radar.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • Italian term meaning wine bar or wine shop, increasingly used in restaurant titles and signage by chef-proprietors eager to push Italy’s ever-more-chic wines, often in 250-ml. carafes tweely referred to as “quartinos.”

    The Wine Snob's Dictionary, Volume 1 2005

  • Italian term meaning wine bar or wine shop, increasingly used in restaurant titles and signage by chef-proprietors eager to push Italy’s ever-more-chic wines, often in 250-ml. carafes tweely referred to as “quartinos.”

    The Wine Snob's Dictionary, Volume 1 2005

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  • In City Centre it were you will

    notice Regional Accent

        [tweely

    denoted by quaint

        phrasing] me sister were there

    visiting like, an er lad as is

    nearly seven were took short -

        needed to go to the bog...

    - Peter Reading, Going On, 1985

    June 19, 2009