Today’s word: Twee: Overly precious or nice.
I don’t normally do words of the day, but I’ve encountered this word twice already this morning.
Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote:
(And why don’t men garden in ads? I know lots of guys who garden, who are proud of their tomatoes. I sure am. Is it twee? Come by the office and say that to my face!)
Mark Steyn wrote:
The score gives you a good clue to the main problem: sometimes it’s grand and epic, at others it’s twee and nudging and determined to jolly along the flattest of gags.
Weird, huh?
