Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
cloy . - adjective
Unpleasantly excessive . - adjective Excessively
sweet .
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- adjective overly sweet
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Examples
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That she manages all of this without ever becoming cloying is a big achievement.
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That she manages all of this without ever becoming cloying is a big achievement.
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That it covered up rather than exposed, that it was like a phony grin - cloying.
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That it covered up rather than exposed, that it was like a phony grin - cloying.
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Just writing this made me recall the cloying twee-ness of the
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Just writing this made me recall the cloying twee-ness of the
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I find it kind of cloying, but then I was really, really disappinted in the ending of No More Heroes, too.
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Chenault has his semi-literate protagonist delivering words like "cloying" and lines like "in the squared circle of hell."
'Shadowboxer: Based on the Life of Joe Louis' at Maryland Opera Studio
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We've got posters above complaining that the speech was "cloying" and then there was Brooks whining that she didn't humanize Barack enough.
Michelle Obama Quotes Hillary's "18 Million Cracks In Glass Ceiling" Line
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Really, liberals are all "cloying" when it comes to Obama?
renumeratedfrog commented on the word cloying
It's a form of the verb cloy and it means "overly filling" as in food.
August 21, 2008
myrtletheturtle commented on the word cloying
I thought that it meant suffocatingly sweet?
August 21, 2008
rolig commented on the word cloying
In modern usage, this word does usually mean "excessively sweet", with regard to taste, odor, or literary style.
August 24, 2008
Telofy commented on the word cloying
“The prosperous-looking man mopped his streaming brow with a large peach-colored handkerchief that sent a cloying fragrance to war with the stenches of the street.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Long Sun
July 30, 2009
kmassie commented on the word cloying
From the book White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Pg.137
"The sticky cloying taste lingered as i sat on my ripcord bedspread and combed my hair with Olivia's comb."
November 1, 2010