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Word | Cloying |
overly sweet / of Cloy / distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental / disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment. / too sweet, pleasant, or emotional, | |
Usage | ⇒ The models gave cloying smiles to the audience ⇒ Disliking the cloying sweetness of standard wedding cakes, Jody and Tom chose a homemade carrot cake for their reception. ⇒ After a while, the softness of his voice becomes cloying. ⇒ a romantic, rather cloying story |
Synonyms | saccharine, sweet, syrupy, mawkish, fulsome, sickening, mushy, satiating, sating, sloppy, treacly, excessive, filling, gooey, icky, maudlin, nauseating, satisfying, sentimental, sugary, |
Antonyms | beautiful, sour, amusing, absolved, abstemious, adroit, antisentimental, blank, breezy, clean, clear, cleared, cloudless, cynical, dapper, dead, dead on target, dead set, decipherable, dexterous, |
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