All 3 Uses of
cloying
in
Catch-22
- Kid Sampson, Nately and the others wandered apart in a noiseless eddy of motion and were sucked away into the cloying yellow stillness.†
Chpt 14 *
- The cloying scents of formaldehyde and alcohol sweetened the air.†
Chpt 41
- Yossarian played dead with his eyes shut while the clerk admitted him by shuffling some papers, and then he was rolled away slowly into a stuffy, dark room with searing spotlights overhead in which the cloying smell of formaldehyde and sweet alcohol was even stronger.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(cloying) overly sweet -- on the tongue or in sentiment