cloying
English
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Pronunciation
editVerb
editcloying
- present participle and gerund of cloy
Adjective
editcloying (comparative more cloying, superlative most cloying)
- Unpleasantly excessive.
- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
- August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk:
- It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
- Excessively sweet.
- 2023, Emerald Fennell, 1:38:29 from the start, in Saltburn:
- Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?
Synonyms
edit- (unpleasantly excessive): exaggerated
- (excessively sweet): syrupy, treacly, oversweet, saccharine
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editunpleasantly excessive
excessively sweet
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