saccharinein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
saccharine as in: saccharine sentiment
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I enjoyed the movie, but I thought the end was too saccharine.saccharine = overly sweet
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He's a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar-crystal and saccharine when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs. (source)saccharine = sweet
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I Already Knew My Options I listened patiently as the saccharine Ms. Sweetwater outlined them again. (source)saccharine = overly sweet
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She didn't pull me close for a big bonding hug, or offer up some saccharine words of comfort, both of which would have sent me running for sure. (source)
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And this: the fact that even an undefined and never-spoken engagement survived, speaking well for the postulation that they did love one another, since during that two days mere romance would have perished, died of sheer saccharinity and opportunity.† (source)
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She's a bit bubbly and saccharine for a jaded audience, but my sister loves her.†
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He picked up bottles of saccharine, bottles of syrup, bottles of corn oil, and hefted them and set them down again.† (source)
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"I think so too," said Chablis, a saccharine sweetness creeping into her voice, "and she's always wanted to be a debutante.† (source)
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"My dear Prince Regent," Levana said in a saccharine voice, "may I be the first to offer my condolences on the loss of your father, the good Emperor Rikan.† (source)
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I gave it my utmost effort, channeling all the saccharine schmaltz I could muster from the 1970s.† (source)
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It was a doll's face on the small fragment of porcelain, Claudia's face, a baby face, a saccharine, sweet mockery of innocence an artist had painted there, a child with raven hair like the doll.† (source)
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A clunking sound in his ear followed by saccharine Montavani, which was supposed to make being on hold more pleasant.† (source)
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Eerily, the taped music comes on over the intercom, saccharine, soporific.† (source)
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"Because you're so sweet," he says in a mock-saccharine voice.† (source)
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As we drive out of town, the sky is the saccharine blue of a baby blanket, filled with puffy cottonball clouds.† (source)
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The smell was both astringent and saccharine, these two contrary characteristics coming together in what she'd come to think of as fetor terribilis.† (source)
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Then I remembered I was indulging in this revolting display of saccharine emotion right in front of Fang.† (source)
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I knew I was presentable-looking, possessed a spacious and sympathetic intelligence, and had that Southern gift of gab which I was well aware could often cast a sugary (but not saccharine) necromantic charm.† (source)
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After this saccharine presentation, the doctor glared at me and asked, "Why are you trying to intimidate us?"† (source)
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