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  • past participle of cloy.
  • past tense form of cloy.
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cloyed



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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

She has gifts that have not cloyed, For these gifts she has employed, And improved: She has bliss which lives and leans Upon loving—and that means She is loved.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane




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