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• s  affectedly dainty or refined

• To anyone unfamiliar with the previous spectacles of this Montreal-based big top -- Le Cirque Reinvente and Nouvelle Experience -- the emcee's remark will seem twee and pretentious.
• Narnia: too twee, and maybe too Christian.
• Gone is the overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate), and in its place is a succint, convincing, and moving account .

• dainty
• mincing
• niminy-piminy
• prim

News & Articles

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• CMTs: More Fugs and Fabs
  Clare here was one of Nashville ‘s only representatives at the CMTs, but with fug like that, I don’t need anyone else. Bless you, little twee May Princess who doesn’t know it turned into June.
  June 6, 2013 - Go Fug Yourself

Quotes

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• Gerard Butler in Scripps News
  At the risk of sounding a little twee, if that's the word, I felt like (it was) my destiny to play Leonidas,says Butler. "I've played this kind of role, and yet I knew that I'd never had a chance to play it on this kind of platform."
• Issac Mizrahi in PR Web (press release)
  Designer Isaac Mizrahi said on CNN.com that when he's looking for inspiration, he goes to Estella: "It sounds totally random, I know, but I adore the incredible color sense. They never get too twee the way they do in other kids' stores--it's very...
• Jane Shepherdson in Independent
  Shepherdson explains: "I wanted to maintain a sense of femininity, because that's kind of been there throughout the brand's history, but I don't think that has to be twee or prim. It can have a slight edge to it."