cloying
UK /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/ US /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
adj 2
Definitions
adj
1
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.
2
Excessively sweet.
Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?
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