How to Use twee in a Sentence

twee

adjective

• The movie was a bit twee for my taste.
• Because — that's right, folks — twee hair is going to sit right down and stay awhile.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 21 Feb. 2022
• Truly a vessel—not a pot, or a cup, or a twee little jar.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 17 May 2021
• The show isn’t making fun of the genre’s tropes and trappings so much as having fun with them, wearing them as twee decoration.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
• For young women, Day’s twee style presented a way to have their cake and eat it, too... literally.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• The conceit sounds twee, but Torres’s delivery has the matter-of-factness of a child describing the secret lives of his toys.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• What, one wonders, can Biden possibly say about his tenure that will not sound ridiculous or twee?
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
• But even more core to the twee aesthetic is the art of thrifting and shopping secondhand, which has hit the mainstream like never before.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2022
• Initially, the plot seems to be set up for Cameron to throw himself a pity party in the most obnoxiously twee way imaginable.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2022
• Popular styles featured twee pastels, punchy neons, floral prints and, of course, the classic white leather models.
  — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• Everything from Bryant’s playful platform sandals to the ribbon bow in her hair was adorable, but the twee touches only added to the whimsy of Rocha’s design.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 May 2021
• The song was a major hit and became a blueprint for the group’s style over the next decade, grafting club rhythms or hip-hop-inspired beat collages onto lyrics that were twee and sentimental.
  — The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Frankfurt was long pitched as a twee German city like Munich, complete with Christmas market and Ebbelwoi (the rather acidic local apple wine).
  — The Economist, 17 Mar. 2018
• Maybe to you, Lady Bird’s critical, nearly twee grandiosity is too earnest, too small potatoes, too corny, too feel-good, too… adolescent girl?
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• Thinking Ivan’s taste is too decorative, too twee, and too irrelevant is wrong.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
• Authority is in short supply in Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, a violin concerto in all but name that’s based on Scottish folk songs and sounds twee at best, cheap at worst.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Moby Doc is a twee pity party heaping with bursts of cutesy animation and deadpan irony that are meant to make a 90-minute testament to its subject’s suffering palatable.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 2 June 2021
• So many of the trippy albums from the psychedelic era sound today like a sort of twee playacting — as if frilling up a song with sound effects and singing about gnomes constituted true trippiness.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
• Cumming went on to spend ages 13 through 16 performing in Supercute!, a twee-pop group with Trachtenburg — not quite the Beatles, but another step closer to her dream.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
• Still, what pushed things over the top was the addition of a pastel pair of vintage roller-skates, an unapologetically twee add-on that made for a series of memorable posts on Bravo’s social media.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2021
• Everything falls within Pyo’s fun and artsy aesthetic, without being too twee or mini-me.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2021
• But there is a narrative chasm between the twee and borderless dreamscape of fantasy Britain and actual, material Britain, where rents are rising and racists are running brave.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• And sometimes, the bicycle can even seem just a twee lifestyle accessory, displayed in the windows of upmarket boutiques, parked in a rack (but seemingly rarely used) in front of luxury hotels.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 29 July 2022
• Often used to decorate twee cocktails or cakes, this glitzy, fine powder has made its way onto all types of savory fare in my kitchen, sprucing up and inspiring what would otherwise be lackluster mid-winter meals.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2022
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s first encounter with a Buchla 100 modular synthesizer sounds almost too twee to be true.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2017
• Kelley and Lorey smartly balance elements that will appeal to teens and adults alike, avoiding too many twee moments without going over the heads of the tweens who’ve historically been the core audience for most live-action Disney shows.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 16 Apr. 2021
• Mira’s twee wildness of spirit is muted by her utter bewilderment.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• Other products, including twee pie pans and baking sheets, are similarly cost-effective.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 1 July 2021
• The tone of twee amusement set by the jaunty score, which portends a silly, perhaps even clownishly derisive caricature, one that looks down on its protagonist with an air of superiority?
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• There’s been some backlash to the twee renaissance, primarily from those who have pointed out that the look prioritized a very specific body type: largely, that of a thin, white, conventionally attractive cisgender woman.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024