saccharine
Example Sentences
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Many parfaits tip into the saccharine — all sweetness, no tension.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
LinkedIn users will be familiar with the saccharine positivity of users explaining how their latest promotion or honor makes them feel humbled and grateful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
It’s a deceptively saccharine world, one that she sees as, in her words, a “poisonous lollipop.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025
So are saccharine dishes like the cranberry orange relish that Michael Donnelly-Boylen sweetened with long pours of sugar into a food processor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Ideally, this value should be infinite, but when it can’t be, let’s hold the saccharine sentiments.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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