cloyed
Example Sentences
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Her formula, a combination of hard masculine realism with feminine deftness and sympathy, pleased many a post-War reader cloyed with hard-boiled sentimentality.
From Time Magazine Archive
He envies the young for being young and for possessing the integrity that has eroded in him, the appetite for life that has cloyed on his palate, and the courage that has been drowned.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this cloyed on Holmes, he never gave a sign; he was obviously having too much fun watching Laski's continuous intellectual floor show.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appetites already cloyed by the night’s heat were further diminished.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
I raise no howl Like yon plump ruffian with the bull-dog jowl; But the smug swells, with pleasure’s honey cloyed, May see in me the real Unemployed!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various
