saccharine

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But too prevent it being too saccharine, the colours are a lovely vile olive and a dirty salmon pink.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet.
  2. adjective Having a cloyingly sweet attitude, tone, or character: a saccharine smile.
  3. adjective Excessively sentimental: "It was enough for him to rely on sentiment . . . and saccharine assertions about The Home” (Kate Millett).

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  • The only supplies we order from the office place each month are: Folgers coffee, non-dairy creamer, Sweet n 'Low (Yay! caffeine, saccharine, and trans fat for our cardiac patients!), generic pens and highlighters, manila folders, paper (some is multi-colored), paper clips, 9 —  MetaChat
  • Although the performances are sometimes saccharine, they nevertheless provide an accessible entry point to ballet. —  StarTribune.com rss feed
  • The saccharine-kid-pop careers spawned on the coattails of achy-breaky, one-hit-wonder dads. —  Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue
  • Without being saccharine, how important has she been? —  CNN.com
  • I personally dislike condescension, and I suspect people who act saccharine-sweet. —  Vanishing American
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  1. from French saccharin = Spanish sacarino = Portuguese sacharino = Italian zuccherino, from New Latin saccharinus, from Middle Latin saccharum, Latin saccharon, sugar: see saccharum.
 

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/ˈsækərɪn/
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