English to German Meaning of twee - gekünstelt

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Definitions of twee in English

Adjective(1) affectedly dainty or refined

Examples of twee in English

(1) However I'm conscious of not wanting to sound twee , and I'd been practicing every night so I felt really prepared to do my own thing.(2) The shops are twee and cute and sell a million varieties of soap; you could browse for a lifetime upgrading your T-shirt collection.(3) Cosy can mean both warm and comforting or irritatingly twee and conventional, even sentimental and kitsch: the German gemtlich.(4) I thought when I first started the book that this mechanism was going to make it a bit twee , and perhaps repetitive and dull, but this is absolutely not the case.(5) By another strange twist of fortune, sweets seem to be creeping up - market again with the recent flowering of twee shops on heritage high streets.(6) There is a clear affinity between actor and character that spills over into the sunny nature of a film that could so easily have seemed twee or sugar-coated.(7) It's this cavalcade of architectural styles, all stopping around 1850, that the critics deride for being twee .(8) Structure-wise it's incredibly flawed, the climax is rushed, the middle is confused, and the beginning is painfully twee .(9) The designs are quirky and the techniques innovative, distinguishing them from the twee associations that craft and knitwear often suffer from.(10) It felt twee and tried to be overly sentimental which didn't work because I didn't feel any closeness towards any of the characters.(11) The presumption people have when they see a toile is that it's going to be full of shepherdesses leading sheep up garden paths and they expect it to be rather on the twee side.(12) I didn't want to make nice, twee little paintings.(13) The one ride I know that is incredibly twee and sweet is called ├ö├ç├┐Its a Small World├ö├ç├û.(14) I mean, come on: this was going to be some insufferably twee tale about the friendship between two feisty old biddies.(15) ├ö├ç├┐It is the the most twee and vulgar thing I have ever seen in my life,├ö├ç├û he said.(16) Disturbingly, it's from some twee site devoted to British Sixties culture├ö├ç┬¬

Related Phrases of twee

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Synonyms

Adjective

1. prim ::

ordentlich

2. mincing ::

zimperlich

3. niminy-piminy ::

niminy-piminy

4. dainty ::

zierlich

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