cloying

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   present participle and gerund of cloy

2. 2

   Unpleasantly excessive.

   • The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
   • 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.
3. 3

   Excessively sweet.

   • Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?

The neighborhood

• synonymunpleasantly excessive
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