cloying
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
- present participle of cloy#English|cloy
cloying
- Unpleasantly excessive.
- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
- August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow ↗," guardian.co.uk:
- It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
- Excessively sweet.
- (unpleasantly excessive) exaggerated
- (excessively sweet) syrupy, treacly, oversweet, saccharine
- German: übertrieben
- Italian: stucchevole
- Russian: слаща́вый
- Spanish: empalagoso, empachoso
- German: süßlich, rührselig, gefühlsduselig
- Italian: sdolcinato, stucchevole
- Russian: слаща́вый
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