Adjective : a perfume of cloying sweetness. From Dictionary.com.
How could I not like someone who called the cloyingly brooding Angel “Angel cakes”?. From Wordnik.com. [Lorne moves on to his next life] Reference
It is not pink, not cloyingly sweet, not gourmand. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Let us bask in the glow of the cloyingly homoerotic!. From Wordnik.com. [circle gets a square] Reference
This is another cloyingly intense calorie-free sweetener. From Wordnik.com. [What's Inside Orbit White Gum? Boiled Pine Sap!] Reference
But it has to be my way or it's the cloyingly sweet highway. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Bon Vivant:] Reference
Precious Moments® figurines and other cloyingly sweet items. From Wordnik.com. [sa-land Diary Entry] Reference
A cloyingly sweet collection of postcards of Animaux habilles. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Sweet but not cloyingly so and is some what cool in the throat. From Wordnik.com. [Persimmon salsa] Reference
Thick perfume scented the air, clutched cloyingly at his senses. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
Even the fruit flavors are cloyingly sweet and hard to choke down. From Wordnik.com. [Leslie Goldman: What Do Babies Think of the New Baby Food Diet?] Reference
I hate cloyingly sweet cookies, and this tip will come in very handy. From Wordnik.com. [Mache with Orange Cumin Dressing ◄ | A Veggie Venture] Reference
It lends a nice smoky flavor and is not as cloyingly sweet as Maple Syrup. From Wordnik.com. [Matzo Brei 101] Reference
It took her several moments to realize that it was a cloyingly sweet scent. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
By this time I had a massive sugar headache since each one was cloyingly sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
The artwork was ham-handed and cloyingly sweet in a coloring book sort of style. From Wordnik.com. [sa-land Diary Entry] Reference
Tarma's expression was cloyingly sweet, and the tone of her shifted voice dulcet. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
The play is not an allergory, and it feels neither didactic nor cloyingly topical. From Wordnik.com. [Risa Shoup: Twenty-First Century Fish Tale] Reference
This show was so cloyingly sweet, I quickly found myself rooting for the Grumplins. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s — An In-Depth Review » DVDs Worth Watching] Reference
As mentioned above, the dough is doughnut-like, spongey and sweet, but not cloyingly so. From Wordnik.com. [One Year of Blogging -] Reference
Hardly anyone reads Dale Carnegie anymore: He seems too preachy and cloyingly optimistic. From Wordnik.com. [Please, Johnny, Work Harder] Reference
When I tried it neat, though, I found that it had a sweet aftertaste, almost cloyingly so. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Sachs: Tequila!] Reference
It is not unpleasant at all, a warm, not cloyingly sweet fragrance...but it is rather dull. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
"The spiciness," he says on emerging from his reverie, "it keeps it from being cloyingly sweet.". From Wordnik.com. [Beer Lovers Going With The Flow] Reference
"I hadn't quite figured out the altitude control," Brenda said, still smiling cloyingly at Wadsworth. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
It was storybook-pretty; cloyingly, exuberantly sweet, like a Precious Moments version of Middle Earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
It was a column called "Potato Peelings" written by one Vonda Dudley Wix in a cloyingly outdated style. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Moved A Mountain]
As if we all aren't Americans, even those of us who don't choose to publish cloyingly sentimental memoirs. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Dorchen: Tim Russert's Eyes Were Nothing Like The Sun] Reference
Tyron's voice took on that cloyingly pleasant tone it always did when he was about to do something appalling. From Wordnik.com. [Brightly Burning]
The poodle yapped, high pitched, reminding Dawna that the dog -- cloyingly named Precious -- was part of her cover. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
When the time came for journalists to write cloyingly sentimental books about their childhood mentors, he wrote one. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Dorchen: Tim Russert's Eyes Were Nothing Like The Sun] Reference
Perhaps most astonishing are the luminous Sarah and Emma Bolger, who make most child actors look cloyingly artificial. From Wordnik.com. [Bring On The Light] Reference
She thought of summoning the clerk to retrieve it for her, and grimaced; he was, she had discovered, quite cloyingly admiring. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
Tiramisu, served in a brandy snifter and sprinkled with shavings of chocolate, is cloyingly sugary and doused with too much liquor. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoned Chef Swaps Boulud For Reliable, Rustic Italian] Reference
At certain points, Lenny is a realistically portrayed lover with a markedly sweet, almost cloyingly sentimental but genuine sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out In Gotham] Reference
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