treacly

• “The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation”

  The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat

• “The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat”

  The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat

• “He threw back his head, cleared his tight throat sonorously, and began, in tones perhaps best described as treacly, to address the seated company, with an intention also towards the larger audience without.”

  In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India

• “To describe most of them as "treacly" would be kind (take this one, for example).”

  Calvin and Susie get it on, displeasing stuffed tigers everywhere | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

• “Besides, you're positively glowing already and it could get kind of treacly for your friends and colleagues there for a while.”

  If you were getting married, would you want a wedding?

• “I suspect that Wood is banging his head against the wall of his own limited view of literature -- in other words, anything that isn't "treacly" or "hysterical realism.”

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• “Walking into the Midtown Diner with Chuck Barris on Presidents 'Day was like walking onto a television set for the kind of treacly special that Mr. Barris probably never would have produced in his television days: something called maybe Chuck Barris' Holiday Homecoming, or Chuck Barris 'Triumphant Foray From His Apartment.”

  Chuck Barris Beats the Gong

• “But Norman says she has rejected countless pitches for "treacly" or "preachy" programming that might prove a turnoff to viewers: "It's not going to be spinach.”

  The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines

• “At some point somebody wrote some kind of treacly religious pap about the “significance of the folds in the flag” there isn’t any – they’re just folds, and the group has been reciting it at the funerals while they fold the flag.”

  2007 October « Lean Left

• “There are more euphemisms for sex than there are Eskimo words for snow, and every single one of them is more honest and descriptive than that treacly, telltale expression of repression.”

  Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

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