cloying
Example Sentences
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Called Agnes here, as she was in her father’s will, she is played by Jessie Buckley in a performance that tips over the edge from heartfelt into cloying, as does the film.
The claim is sometime made that funerals are about the living, but that reduces the event to a group therapy session, overlaid with the cloying odor of lilies and gladioli.
The script leans so heavily into cloying emotionality that, in its climax, everyone dissolves into tears.
But she is bewildered by the sensory clashes and put off by the cloying sweetness.
The results were rarely inedible, but often disconcerting: over-salted, over-spiced, somehow both cloying and sharp, like they couldn’t decide what they wanted to be.
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