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  • adjective sweet as sugar, very sweet

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Examples

  • It was Japan's AKB48, a group of 92 mostly teenage girls, armed with sugar-sweet pop tunes and sometimes-suggestive lyrics "My school uniform is getting in the way" that has saturated the country's popular and commercial culture.

    Japan Goes Gaga Over a 92-Member Girl Group Andrew Joyce 2011

  • Included was an introduction that was appropriately sugar-sweet: I have known Joe Gordon-Levitt for going on 12 years.

    Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Sing 'What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?' (VIDEO) 2011

  • Doug had no idea I was looking, and if he knew, he would just laugh and say something in that sugar-sweet sarcastic voice of his.

    Forget You Jennifer Echols 2010

  • Doug had no idea I was looking, and if he knew, he would just laugh and say something in that sugar-sweet sarcastic voice of his.

    Forget You Jennifer Echols 2010

  • Instead, she uses foot-speed, anticipation and the sugar-sweet timing of her groundstrokes (in particular, that poetic one-handed backhand).

    Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June Xan Brooks at Wimbledon 2010

  • Candyland: General Odierno will lead you through the magical forest of insurgents, on to old man Cheney's mystical cave of legal persuasion techniques, all the way to the happy, sugar-sweet land of self-controlled democracy!

    Jilly Gagnon: Great Games for Christmas: The Economy Edition! 2009

  • I guess the masses just don't dig his style, but I love the sugar-sweet mannerisms.

    NBC Cancels ANDY BARKER P.I. | the TV addict 2007

  • But despite the beauty of the spectacle, the conscious decision to create a narrative that rewrites both Chinese history and reality and presents a sugar-sweet sunshine portrait to the world is alarming -- but the fact that the NBC commentators unquestioningly went along with it is downright appalling.

    Katherine Goldstein: Hook, Line, and Sinker: NBC Swallows Opening Ceremonies Propaganda 2008

  • "No need for applause, " Vivienne said in sugar-sweet tones.

    Sundays at Tiffany's Charbonnet, Gabrielle 2008

  • In the early '70s, this semi-explicit plea for liberated, sugar-sweet lovemaking sung by a 34-year-old to his 17-year-old girlfriend, no less! was still a bold statement, but the man just couldn't hold in all this love.

    Jenna Jameson's 69 Sexiest Songs William Harryman 2007

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