Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of cloy.
- adj. Unpleasantly excessive.
- adj. Excessively sweet.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. overly sweet
Examples
“That she manages all of this without ever becoming cloying is a big achievement.”
“That it covered up rather than exposed, that it was like a phony grin - cloying.”
“Just writing this made me recall the cloying twee-ness of the”
“I find it kind of cloying, but then I was really, really disappinted in the ending of No More Heroes, too.”
“Chenault has his semi-literate protagonist delivering words like "cloying" and lines like "in the squared circle of hell.”
The Washington Post: 'Shadowboxer: Based on the Life of Joe Louis' at Maryland Opera Studio
“We've got posters above complaining that the speech was "cloying" and then there was Brooks whining that she didn't humanize Barack enough.”
Michelle Obama Quotes Hillary's "18 Million Cracks In Glass Ceiling" Line
“Really, liberals are all "cloying" when it comes to Obama?”
“*** Here's a punny story; during a recent dinner party conversation, there was near unanimous agreement that puns are "cloying" and "annoying" (you'll no doubt be shocked that I was the lone defender).”
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“Amy, I used to wear White Shoulders too, but it got kind of cloying to me after a while.”
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“Grant Robertson The Best Musical Album for Children category goes beyond the kind of cloying, saccharine sounds that please kids too young to know better but drive discerning parents batty.”
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Tweets
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kmassie From the book White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Pg.137
"The sticky cloying taste lingered as i sat on my ripcord bedspread and combed my hair with Olivia's comb." Oct 31, 2010
Telofy “The prosperous-looking man mopped his streaming brow with a large peach-colored handkerchief that sent a cloying fragrance to war with the stenches of the street.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Long Sun Jul 29, 2009
rolig In modern usage, this word does usually mean "excessively sweet", with regard to taste, odor, or literary style. Aug 24, 2008
myrtletheturtle I thought that it meant suffocatingly sweet? Aug 21, 2008
renumeratedfrog It's a form of the verb cloy and it means "overly filling" as in food. Aug 21, 2008