Adjective, : a tweedy sportswoman. ,a large and tweedy colony of civil servants and government officials. From Dictionary.com.
Behind him was an older, burlier man in tweedy brown. From Wordnik.com. [More Twisted Stories Vol II]
A large tweedy woman was hailing her, hand outstretched. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
He replaced his hat and smoothed his tweedy tweed-clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Child Of The Hunt]
He looked like a tweedy, jaunty prof on a lunchtime errand. From Wordnik.com. [Kiss the Girls]
Mostly women, some tweedy-looking men, and even a regular guy or two. From Wordnik.com. [What Dreams May Come]
I wondered, pointing toward something tweedy with a Peter Pan collar. From Wordnik.com. [Style Diary: August 12, 1996] Reference
Markos, as he is universally known, does not traffic in tweedy ironies. From Wordnik.com. [When Democrats Go Post-al] Reference
McCaskey was dressed in a leather jacket instead of his usual tweedy blazer. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
Parents, our universities have been hijacked, and it ` s not just by tweedy liberals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2007] Reference
She was wearing a tight pantsuit in a brownish, tweedy material, flecked with orange. From Wordnik.com. [Grave Surprise]
Tall, thin, prematurely gray, tweedy, he might have come straight from Central Casting. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
Neal, less rumpled and more tweedy than usual, looked at me and shook his head slightly. From Wordnik.com. [While Other People Sleep]
I imagined an economic control room full of gauges and valves, staffed by tweedy academics. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6] Reference
Bairnhouse was a pink-faced, moderately overweight man of forty, dressed in a tweedy fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Tek Lab]
We've already said it once; no need to say it again through tweedy, pseudo-intellectual attire. From Wordnik.com. [Melanie Benjamin: How to Dress an Author] Reference
Lou was sitting at the Psychical Research Society desk, talking to the tweedy Sir Lewis Carter. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
He was dressed in a tweedy workers cap and looked every bit the spitting image of Vladimir Lenin. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 6] Reference
He was wearing a tweedy sport jacket, a white shirt, and a blue handkerchief tied around his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing in the Dark]
My suit doesn't have the boxy shape, tweedy fabric and decorative touches of the traditional St. John's suit. From Wordnik.com. [The Suit That Turns Me Into a VIP] Reference
"What we all of us hope to be doing in the middle of the night," the tweedy man said, raising a general laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
The day his name broke in the press, he encountered a tweedy, middle-aged reporter on his street on Staten Island. From Wordnik.com. [Incident in the 70th Precinct] Reference
Obama's casual reference to Sotomayor's judicial fastball was enough to set off tweedy baseball weenie George Will. From Wordnik.com. [Sotomayor is a Sporting Judge] Reference
I can imagine, now, what every tweedy archaeology professor must have felt like when Raiders of the Lost Ark opened. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
Bacanovic, an urbane 40-year-old bachelor, is a far cry from the avuncular, tweedy brokers who populate TV commercials. From Wordnik.com. [Look Who's Talking] Reference
The tweedy bonhomie of "My Dog Tulip" celebrates the abiding values of dusty tomes, literary eloquence and shaggy dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Animated Lives, Annotated Crimes] Reference
They had put aside racks of red stuff, in honor of V-Day I suppose, and I saw this extra cute red tweedy looking skirt. From Wordnik.com. [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference
I am fed up with tweedy, self-absorbed, self-impressed northeastern liberals who are hell-bent on ramming HRC down our throats. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | What's Next: The Battle For Edwards Delegates And Supporters] Reference
Mr. Montebello's decision comes at a time when the once-tweedy position of museum director is growing increasingly complicated. From Wordnik.com. [Big Museums Draw a Blank] Reference
Viacom and Disney-employed network news executives inflating like tweedy associate professors at the Columbia Journalism School. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Snaps Back to Action] Reference
"I am fed up with tweedy, self-absorbed, self-impressed northeastern liberals who are hell-bent on ramming HRC down our throats.". From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | What's Next: The Battle For Edwards Delegates And Supporters] Reference
These splendid creatures could be called Coward's happy few, surrounded by his tweedy, stodgy, sniveling many, who are always "aghast.". From Wordnik.com. [Whipped Cream] Reference
They were all there: Angela and her husband, Dr. Brodie, the Currie sisters, minister Mr. Wellington and his large tweedy wife. \cf0\par. From Wordnik.com. [Poem About Never Growing Up] Reference
It preceded him into Col. Patt Thomas's office, followed, in degrees, by his maroon bow tie, closely cropped haircut, and tweedy shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Incognito]
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