英语词汇“treacly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Use the adjective treacly to describe something that has a sticky, sweet flavor. Your dad's chocolate pecan pie might be a little too treacly for your taste.

Something that's way too sugary is treacly. Your little brother might love treats like fudge and caramels and syrupy soft drinks that just taste treacly to you. You can also use the word in a more figurative way, to talk about overly sweet talk or behavior, like the treacly language on a sentimental greeting card. Treacly comes from treacle — a British term for molasses — originally "an antidote to poison," from the Greek root theriake, "antidote for poisonous wild animals."

WORD FAMILY

treacle: treacly

USAGE EXAMPLES

But it had the saving grace of the performance by Robin Williams, whose charismatic strangeness usually gave a weird, anchoring conviction to treacly parts.

New York Times(Nov 17, 2016)

While this instinct may come from a good place, it often lands in a bad one, the treacly territory of euphemism and happy talk.

New York Times(Oct 01, 2016)

Even as China became a global superpower in the late 20th century, big-budget Chinese movies were, by and large, treacly, patriotic fare.

New York Times(Jul 14, 2016)

adj overly sweet

Syn

cloying, saccharine, syrupy
sweet

having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar

单词	treacly
释义	treacly (once / 77759 pages) adj Use the adjective treacly to describe something that has a sticky, sweet flavor. Your dad's chocolate pecan pie might be a little too treacly for your taste. Something that's way too sugary is treacly. Your little brother might love treats like fudge and caramels and syrupy soft drinks that just taste treacly to you. You can also use the word in a more figurative way, to talk about overly sweet talk or behavior, like the treacly language on a sentimental greeting card. Treacly comes from treacle — a British term for molasses — originally "an antidote to poison," from the Greek root theriake, "antidote for poisonous wild animals." WORD FAMILY treacle: treacly USAGE EXAMPLES But it had the saving grace of the performance by Robin Williams, whose charismatic strangeness usually gave a weird, anchoring conviction to treacly parts. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) While this instinct may come from a good place, it often lands in a bad one, the treacly territory of euphemism and happy talk. New York Times(Oct 01, 2016) Even as China became a global superpower in the late 20th century, big-budget Chinese movies were, by and large, treacly, patriotic fare. New York Times(Jul 14, 2016) adj overly sweet Syn cloying, saccharine, syrupy sweet having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
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