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Twee (adj) means So sweet, dainty or charming that it becomes too much.

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So sweet, dainty or charming that it becomes too much.

"Those Beatrix Potter animals are a little twee for my taste."

"I just wouldn’t have felt comfortable saying, "I am a duckbilled platypus, and this is how I find my shrimps." I think it would have been twee." — Stephen S. Hall, Darwin's Rottweiler: Sir Richard Dawkins: Evolution's fiercest champion, far too fierce (2005)

"Ms. Roman said she embraced “messy” as a philosophy and an aesthetic partly in response to Ms. Stewart’s standards. “Everything perfect, everything twee, everything pretty,” she said. “That was never going to be me.”" — Julia Moskin, Martha Stewart Transformed the Dinner Party. Was That a Good Thing? (2025)

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