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tweedy

/twee-dee/US // ˈtwi di //UK // (ˈtwiːdɪ) //

纠结,纠结的人,纠结的,纠缠不清

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    tweed·i·er, tweed·i·est.

    • : made of or resembling tweed, as in texture, appearance, or the like.
    • : wearing or favoring tweeds, especially as a mark of a casual, sporty, or intellectual way of life, as at college or in the country: a tweedy sportswoman.
    • : accustomed to, preferring, or characterized by the wearing of tweeds, as in genteel country life or academia: a large and tweedy colony of civil servants and government officials.

Examples

  • Pretty is played here, with tweedy purposefulness, by Carey Mulligan.

  • Mike Tweedy, a government employee in Georgia, resolved to leave Mormonism in 2007.

  • “It used to be that you could not research these things adequately,” Tweedy told me.

  • Tweedy had gone online to research a small discrepancy in a pair of Mormon texts.

  • He was the kind of Ole Miss graduate who came out so studiedly tweedy that he made Harvard Law men look flamboyant.

  • In 1997, Jeff Tweedy introduced “Color Me Impressed” by saying, “Everything we do is based on the Replacements.”

  • The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).

  • A bend flory and counterflory will be found in the arms of Fellows, a quartering of Tweedy.

  • Wherever a Veitch and a Tweedy met, they fought, and fought to kill.

  • Same house as Molly's namesake, Tweedy, crown solicitor for Waterford.

  • Pride of Calpe's rocky mount, the ravenhaired daughter of Tweedy.