twee

a solitary ancient in a tweed jacket.

a hairy tweed coat and skirt.

a grey herringbone tweed jacket.

although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable.

He wore a tweed sports jacket.

She has a rather twee manner that I find irritating.

Fantasy yarns mixed to flat ones, never very thick, with different aspect: boucle, jaspe, vrille, hairy, felted, tweed, but never exaggerated.

As twee as they are numerous, they truss reactionary class politics in sentimental plots to flog to suggestible foreigners.

I look at them with a distant, analytical eye, noting how small everything looks, how tired, how twee.

Your columnist, who long deemed gardening a twee waste of time, advances this argument with a convert's zeal.

But life is, as twee as it is, as quant as it is a sentiment, life is the great art, isn't it?