Adjective : a powdery substance with a saccharine taste. ,a saccharine dessert. ,a saccharine personality. ,a saccharine smile; a saccharine song of undying love. From Dictionary.com.
She displayed an overwhelming saccharinity that was appalling. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Ersatz] Reference
Elise Polko has worked up an elaborate fiction on this affair with her usual saccharinity. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians]
I've yet to see an adequate explanation for that which doesn't turn on some nonsense about students being the light of a teacher's life or similarly saccharinity (I made it up; deal). From Wordnik.com. [To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth] Reference
Rose-Cross wilds, which, when agitated, sprays the air -- so the poet, laboring obesely under his emotion, smiled with a sweetness so intolerable that the air seemed to be squirted full of saccharinity to the point of plethoric saturation. From Wordnik.com. [Iole] Reference
Aristotle regarded such figures and fancies as "adornments," but in the 19th century (which saw the birth both of Spooner and Sir James A.H. Murray's monstrous lexicographical child) the icing on the cake, all froth and saccharinity to the humorless rhetorician, becomes in fact the entire bill of fare; the rhetorical flourish, all we can discern of rhetoric, and the play on words, the word itself. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
Quill's voice resumed its caustic saccharinity. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
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