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She found the movie’s ending cloying, filled with clichés and syrupy dialogue.cloying = overly sweet or sentimental
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The dessert was so cloying that she couldn’t eat more than a few bites.cloying = overly sweet
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Her cloying compliments felt fake after a while.cloying = overly sweet or sentimental
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"How are you doing, sweetie?" I asked, cloying. (source)cloying = in an overly sweet manner
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And she had discovered, with the very first toast, that she liked the sweet, cloying taste of the wine, even though it made her head buzz. (source)cloying = overly sweet
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And the rest of her senior year will probably suck, what with her getting all that cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive her so crazy, (source)
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It was not the voice she had used with Jason, that cloying sweetness.† (source)
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And I remember the smells of the hills, wild azalea and a very distant skunk and the sweet cloy of lupin and horse sweat on harness.† (source)
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Even the richest food cloys when eaten days on end; in the market, nothing ever cloys.† (source)
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Appetites already cloyed by the night's heat were further diminished.† (source)
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The wine was cloyingly sweet, but very strong.† (source)
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The messengers' headquarters was on Cloying Street, not far from the back of the Gathering Hall.† (source)
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The night wind came whispering in, cutting through the cloy of the spilled perfume.† (source)
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To be sure, behind this thought lurks the afterthought of force and dominion,—the making of brown men to delve when the temptation of beads and red calico cloys.† (source)
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as the overblown rose or magnolia elides from one rich June to the next, leaving no bones, no substance, no dust of whatever dead pristine soulless rich surrender anywhere between sun and earth) but produced complete and subject to no microbe in that cloyed and scented maze of shuttered silk as if he were the delicate and perverse spirit-symbol, immortal page of the ancient immortal Lilith, entering the actual world not at the age of one second but of twelve years, the delicate garments of his pagehood already half concealed beneath that harsh and shapeless denim cut to an iron pattern and sold by the millions—that burlesque uniform and regalia of the tragic burlesque of the sons of Ham;† (source)
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I was falling for the deflecting technique again, not that Havoline Oil had anything cloyingly poetical about it.† (source)
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