cloying's Usage Examples:

His character is notable for his cloying humility, unctuousness, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent.

quatrain applies the principles of the first: "being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness, / To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;" "ne'er" firstly.

awarded the album 2 stars and states: "The self-help lyrics get a bit cloying and the voices simply weigh down the music but there are some good solos.

Catherine found Vasilchikov's gentleness cloying, saying "His tenderness made me weep.

very high residual sugar level, the finest specimens are far from being cloying due to high level of acidity.

elaborately", an example of Hellenistic "Middle-class taste [that] was often cloying and hideous, sometimes appealing.

and her range was praised, other reviewers considered the album to be "cloying" and "little more than a novelty act".

though not by all: Victor Lewis-Smith recalls it as "a foul, resinous, cloying, sweet beverage" without even the "saving grace" of inducing drunkenness.

Bats projects a treble-happy modesty that can be at once charming and cloying".

Krishnamurthy says: The sensuality and cloying love depicted in these verses is such that it cannot bring fame to any.

Bunchosia armeniaca yields a fruit that is very sweet and with cloying red pulp, which adheres strongly to the seeds, hence the Spanish etymology.

accompanying letter saying, "Yes, there are congressional wives who aren't cloying Barbie Dolls swathed in Ultrasuede.

2006, Freeman describes Cookies as "old-fashioned sweet, without being cloying or didactic".

pieces, though he noted that one should read only one a day, "any more gets cloying".

Critics described it as "funny and sentimental without being cloying," and, noting the release's relation to the King's passing, that "we need.

strongly scented and perceived by humans to be either 'honey-like' or 'cloying' or even 'stinky'.

Almost immediately, there seems to be something cloying at her.

intentions, and Asher clearly meant well with it, but that doesn’t cure its cloying and saccharine tone, falling prey as it does to the same old autism fiction.

quality to them that, given a less talented and generous writer, might seem cloying or sentimental.

has entered the English language with the sense "extreme sentimentality, cloying sweetness".

Synonyms:

syrupy; saccharine; sweet; treacly;

Antonyms:

malodorous; unmelodious; sugarless; tasteless; sour;