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cloying

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcloyingcloy‧ing /ˈklɔɪ-ɪŋ/ adjective  1 ANNOYa cloying attitude or quality annoys you because it is too sweet or nice cloying sentimentality2 SICK/VOMITcloying food or smells are sweet and make you feel sick the thick cloying smell of cheap perfumesee thesaurus at sweetcloyingly adverbExamples from the CorpuscloyingThe novel's plot is interesting, but the dialogue is just too cloying.As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat.There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.I got up, thick-headed, with a cloying mouth.These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent.the cloying smell of cheap perfumeOrigin cloying (1500-1600) cloy to be cloying ((16-21 centuries)), from accloy to make unable to walk ((14-18 centuries)), from Old French encloer to drive a nail in, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin clavus nail
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