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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