cloying
11cloying — adj. Cloying is used with these nouns: ↑sweetness …
12cloying — adjective her romance novels are too cloying for my taste Syn: sickly, syrupy, saccharine, oversweet; sickening, nauseating; mawkish, sentimental, twee; informal over the top, mushy, slushy, sloppy, gooey, cheesy, corny, cornball, sappy …
13cloying — Synonyms and related words: bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloysome, fetid, filling, foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, jading, luscious, maggoty, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby pamby, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous,… …
14cloying — klɔɪ v. cause to feel satiated or gorged; fatten oneself, gorge oneself …
15cloying — adjective disgust or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment. → cloy …
16cloying — cloy·ing …
17cloying — See: cloy …
18cloying — cloy•ing [[t]ˈklɔɪ ɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) causing distaste or disgust through excess 2) overly ingratiating or sentimental • Etymology: 1540–50 cloy′ing•ly, adv …
19cloying — /ˈklɔɪɪŋ/ (say kloying) adjective 1. sickeningly sweet. 2. excessively emotional; sentimental. –cloyingly, adverb –cloyingness, noun …
20cloying — adjective overly sweet • Syn: ↑saccharine, ↑syrupy, ↑treacly • Similar to: ↑sweet • Derivationally related forms: ↑treacle (for: ↑ …
