cloyingadjective
uk/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/us/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/cloying adjective (TOO SWEET)
literary disapproving too sweet and therefore unpleasant:
This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying.
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Sentimental and over-emotional
- mawkish
- mush
- mushy
- sappy
- schmaltz
- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- sickly
- sloppy
- slush
- slushy
- soppy
- syrupy
- treacly
cloying adjective (TOO EMOTIONAL)
disapproving too good or kind, or expressing feelings of love in a way that is not sincere:
She criticized the cloying sentimentality of the film.
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- hokey
- meretricious
- pious
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- pseudo-
- slick
- theatrical
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cloyingly
adverb uk/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ.li/us/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ.li/
cloyingly sweet