twee
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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Unlike the golden age of twee, dancing in the street and running into the arms of the one person you love aren’t enough for a happy ending.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2025
Despite its heavy subject matter, We Live In Time has been praised as "life-affirming", although other critics have described it as "positively twee".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
July’s work has frequently been described as whimsical or twee, but those adjectives can’t convey the molten core of this book, which is at once hilarious and dead serious.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
She liked the way he said locate, all twee, like a schoolmaster.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Vocabulary lists containing twee
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Symphony for the City of the Dead
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Far from the Tree
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