Cloying Definition

kloiiŋ
verb

Cloy.

Webster's New World

Present participle of cloy.

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adjective
Displeasing or distasteful because of excess.
Cloying sweetness.
Webster's New World
Overly sweet, sentimental, etc.
A cloying romance novel.
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Cloying Sentence Examples

  • Toto is so cloying he make me want to vomit.

  • Scents are personal, and what one person may find delightful, another may find cloying.

  • Cloying is a negative description generally given for sweet wines that are not balanced in acid structure, residual sugars and tannins.

  • Nieremberg has not the enraptured vision of St Theresa, nor the philosophic significance of Luis de Leon, and the unvarying sweetness of his style is cloying; but he has exaltation, unction, insight, and his book forms no unworthy close to a great literary tradition.

  • Yet, unlike the equally gregarious Doug of Doug's First Movie, he's never cloying.

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Words Starting With

CCLCLO

Words Ending With

GNGING

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Words Starting With C and Ending With G

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