sugary

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By Good Golly Miss Holly -- serves the yin and yang of the dessert world: tart frozen yogurt, touted for its nutritional value and health benefits; and giant specialty cupcakes, better known as a sugary indulgence.

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  1. adjective Characterized by or containing sugar: sugary foods.
  2. adjective Tasting or looking like sugar.
  3. adjective Excessively or cloyingly sweet: sugary compliments; a sugary smile.

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  • The grades are fancy (least dark and most sugary, at least to some tastes), medium, amber, dark amber, and grade B (i.e. the coarsest). —  Ben Witherington
  • Yes, sometimes granola, but not Cheerios or Rice Krispies, which I have deemed overly processed, sugary, and salty. —  SFGate: Top News Stories
  • Spellbound she reads and marvels at his poems, responding to his linguistic dominance in her letters - don't forget she is six years his junior - with a mystifying tone that sounds like a sugary Celan pastiche: "Again I have felt the poppy, deep, so deep, your magic was so wondrous, I can never forget it." —  signandsight.com
  • Impressed by the bar's list of 25 tequilas but hoping we could get a decent margarita without paying for the upgrades, we ordered a $6 house margarita on the rocks that was sweet, tart and watery all at the same time and a $7 house frozen strawberry margarita that was a slushy, sugary, half-melted mess. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
  • Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center found that low-status female monkeys couldn't resist loading up on sugary, high-fat food and kept eating it into the night, whereas the dominant monkeys weren't nearly so tempted by the treats. —  TierneyLab
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Early modern English also sugrie; from sugar + -y.
  2. For *sugarery, from sugar + -ery.
 

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/ˈʃəgəri/
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