cloying

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  • The city was cloying, the truth about the Danvers family as dark as the night. —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
  • He was artificially sweet -- cloying -- but he wasn't purple. —  EBSCOhost
  • But larger doses have a more cloying--even retroactively so--impact If you like your buttons pushed, you'll love it If a book's title and cover copy ("post-mortem breakfast trip ... warped sense of humor") can entice a reader, Amityville House of Pancakes Omnibus, Vol. 2 , has what it takes. —  Analog, July-August 2006
  • It was sweet but not cloying, and it was certainly hot. —  The Silver Spring Penguin
  • Though it does get very near to being sentimentally cloying, there's no need for this piece to have been crafted to the length that it has been - let alone at all - and that it has been is both a true mark of respect and the resounding "must have" reason for owning this set. —  Animated Views
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