Recent Examples on the WebAs men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.—Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 12 June 2024 Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.—Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022 English cars have a tweedy character, Italian exotics can be fierce, but the French do a sort of wheeled quirkiness that's positively fizzing with zest.—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022 Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London.—Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022 See all Example Sentences for tweedy
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