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sickly-sweetadjective1Excessively or unpleasantly sweet: sickly-sweet candy-floss...- Please don't bring any more of that sickly-sweet pink fizz, even if it is six bottles for a tenner.
- The sickly-sweet smell made her head spin.
- Children that age seem to think that vegetables were sent to torment them and the only nice foods are brightly-coloured, sickly-sweet or deep-fried.
1.1Excessively sentimental or mawkish: a sickly-sweet teen road-trip movie...- Depending on your viewpoint, this was either a ghastly, sickly-sweet, cheaply made sitcom of the worst kind, or a harmless slice of apple-pie America.
- The tales mix magic with moments that are both funny and scary, steering clear of the sickly-sweet stories we have been fed for years.
- I'm fine just churning out the same sickly-sweet, mass-produced pop albums year after year and collecting my fat paycheck.
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