It developed a reputation as a stronghold of Ivy League tweediness.

He applied its dense tweediness to an essentially realist armature, maintaining a stylistic consistency that stands out here.

The tweediness, the jauntiness and those overstuffed sentences - that endless pileup of adjectives and adverbs!

In the New World, the British sports car of the immediate pre-Beatles era conveyed a strange alloy of silk-shirt raciness and pipe-smoking tweediness, which suited him.

The editors, based in London, where Sir George Grove compiled the dictionary in 1878, turned away pleas for a CD-ROM Grove with English academic tweediness.