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- adj. alternative spelling of sickly sweet.
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“Given his obvious fondness for the dark and twisted, it's ironic that writer-producer Ryan Murphy's biggest hit to date has been the sickly-sweet issue machine that Glee Thu, 9pm, Sky1 often finds itself turning into.”
“Breaking: Throw-away blog post spurs stupid, ignorant and/or sickly-sweet comments!”
“Did the sickly-sweet smoke from the aromatherapy candles choke your personality?”
“Gone are the days when you needed to choke down sickly-sweet Concord grape, choose from Cabernets, Merlots, Chardonnays, Rieslings, and then if you must have sweet wine, try some specially vinted for dessert.”
““Happy birthday,” one of the other girls said to me with a sickly-sweet fake smile.”
“We will storm the gentrified neighborhoods of America's cities, hurling Frappuccino Molotovs into the open cockpits of convertible Mini Coopers and Volkswagen Beetles, where they will explode in sickly-sweet frothiness.”
“They smelled like corpses—the sickly-sweet odor of decay.”
“Newsnight showed to sickly-sweet guff at the Democrat convention.”
“If it's an adult is the one saying this, plaster on your best fake smile and go with either a sickly-sweet, "That must have been hard!" or "Good for you!”
“Cheaply mass-produced, sugary, and still available today, it offered workers of all walks a sickly-sweet taste of the good life.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights'
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