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cloying
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{adj}
synonyms: treacly, surfeit, mawkish ???
► definition
Definition:1. sickeningly sweet (either literally or figuratively)2. (overly) satisfying
► uses
Uses:
"It's fantastic," he said while biting into the pastry. "The cream is sweet without being cloying."
Anita Hughes. Christmas in London, p.16 (2017)
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I’m underwater— surrounded by a thick cloying liquid. Despite the freezing cold, my chest burns with a desperate need for oxygen.
Kev Heritage. Vatic
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butterscotch on his dry-kiss lips, a cloying flavor
Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.235 (2012)
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I couldn't distinguish whether I was smelling the clutching sound of misery or hearing the cloying odor of death.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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my fool preferred the corniest movies, the most cloying fudge.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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M. Mery. Ten men can scarce match you with a spoone in a pie.
R. Royster. Nay the stomake of a man to trie in strife.
M. Mery. I neuer sawe your stomacke cloyed yet in my lyfe.
Nicholas Udall. Roister Doister
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