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Meanings of tweedy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "homespun"
Examples for "homespun"
1
Other computer companies, however, have tried the homespun direct-marketing approach and failed.
2
TESTER embroidered in crewels in shades of blue on white homespun linen.
3
Underwear and sleeping garments were made of the natural colored homespun cloth.
4
The men wore shoes made of bark and homespun shirts and coats.
5
Rawhide was used in place of lines, and homespun garments were uniform.
1
He wore a nubby jacket and a silk turtleneck and sipped scotch.
2
He wore baggy dungarees and rubber boots, with a thick, nubby sweater.
3
Attitude lifted the bat for a third blow, his nubby teeth clenched.
4
Aren't Were-Hunters supposed to be extra special nubby treats for them?
5
Jack exhaled a cloud of blue, the nubby cigarette falling to the floor.
1
She had new breasts, still nubbly but there, under her shirt.
2
Most of us just muddle along with nubbly condoms and vibrators.
3
This low, nubbly tongue of land was roughly triangular.
4
Presently our vehicle bumps across a nubbly bridge, and enters what was once a fair city.
5
It was one of those hard, nubbly rolls.
Usage of tweedy in English
1
A tweedy man with a small mustache stood in the doorway.
2
Essentially with what amounts to a tweedy shrug of the shoulders.
3
It's a word loved by tweedy academics because of its ambiguity and obscurity.
4
And then there were the tweedy ones, but only a few.
5
You see the rumpled tweedy fellow talking to St. Clare?
6
It's a far cry from a tweedy headshrinking practice.
7
I notice that Jeremy Paxman has taken to wearing a tweedy three-piece suit on Newsnight.
8
Needless to say, the tweedy Yale professors weren't thrilled.
9
It was a blue serge, tweedy-type pinafore dress and I hated it with a vengeance.
10
It was a good crowd-academicsociologists rubbing tweedy elbows with spiky-hairedGoths in black overcoats.
11
The interior had a tweedy, earth-tone, Brady Bunch vibe.
12
When Aria saw a hand curled over the edge of the tweedy love seat, she jumped.
13
This post is not some huffy, tweedy rant about the superiority of films to video games.
14
It was a sports coat, tweedy and sharp.
15
He wore beige corduroy slacks and a tweedy sports coat, an open-neck shirt and tan loafers.
16
He is a bit older than I, well dressed, tweedy in that good, Giles-y sort of way.
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