wiredrawn

English

Verb

wiredrawn

  1. past participle of wiredraw

Adjective

wiredrawn (comparative more wiredrawn, superlative most wiredrawn)

  1. Tenuous; excessively refined; strained or forced.
    • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:
      ‘I very much doubt whether they’ll be able to make this pot-walloping mugwump of an Abbot understand their wire-drawn deductions,’ said Silvander Dan.
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