honeyed

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That cooing interpolation of "your sincere friend"--too strongly honeyed--suddenly recalled the Prophet to the fact that Lady Enid was not, and could never be, his confidante in the matter that obsessed him.

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  1. verb A past tense and a past participle of honey.
  2. adjective Containing, full of, or sweetened with honey.
  3. adjective Ingratiating; sugary: honeyed words.

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  • Suddenly my mind perceived light where my closed eyes did not, and I smelled the cooking river fish on the smoky little braziers, and saw the skewers of dripping honeyed-fruit on the tray of a street hawker. —  Legends II
  • He had danced to the wrong music, held the wrong woman, but nothing in his life had ever felt so right He closed his eyes, breathing in not the delicate lavender of Suzanne's perfume, but the haunting aroma of vanilla warmed by sun-honeyed skin. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • Thankfully, she was able to keep her instinctive groan internal as his honeyed drawl sent shivers right down to her toes. —  TheKouvarisMarriage
  • Her simple charm and quiet smile gave us a welcome beyond that of honeyed oratory; forgotten was our difficult, dusty trip. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • But the fact is, while not golden, his voice was still honeyed-more like thick molassesed-as the vocals hit such low registers that it was more the 3 Train rumbling below the theater than an actual vocal. —  Long Island Press
 

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