weeny
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Fields; Theodore Roosevelt, who undermines his Rough Rider persona with a weeny, high voice; and William Howard Taft exhibiting his native Ohio’s warmish “r’s” and open vowels.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
After teeny Herm and weeny Sark, Alderney felt like a metropolis.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2015
I'm not that keen on them when they're weeny; they don't do much.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012
Viola Davis, 46, elicited a positive response when she wore her TWA, or "teeny weeny Afro," as the look is known, on the red carpet at the 2012 Academy Awards.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2012
But Rover only opened one eye a very little bit and wagged his tail, a very weeny mite, and went on with his nap.
From Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm by Hugh Spencer
“He bought, like, 20 packages of weenies yesterday,” said Chris, a store manager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
He has tried to untangle the debate between bacon strips and bits, opined on the brilliance of weenies and eggs, and considered the beauty of a well-made flour tortilla.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
A classic strategy of the school bully is to make his enemies look, in comparison, like uptight weenies.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 3, 2017
This is truly the worst crime of The Wine Show: It takes two dreamboats and reduces them to weenies.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2016
“With all his education, mind you. Selling weenies out on the street in the broad daylight.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Then each little Chuck would sit up very straight and not move the teeniest, weeniest bit, so that from a little distance they looked for all the world like tiny stumps.
From The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
“I only use the weeniest little dab of rouge,” she declared, “and it is really necessary, because I want to get rid of the ‘pallor effect.’”
From Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
But there is the weeniest, teeniest chance, isn't there?
From The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
No, Sir, he didn't look the teeniest, weeniest bit afraid!
From The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
Well, one day Mrs. Kitty was going to give a birthday party for the weeniest kitty.
From The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives by Elizabeth Strong Worthington
