cloy

I added horseradish and hot sauce for a kick, and just enough ketchup to tint the sauce pale pink without letting it cloy.

But before such moments can cloy, Arbery usefully complicates his case.

Even if you don’t know “Sweat,” though, “Clyde’s” may slightly cloy.

There is no trace of sugar, no cloy from traditional American-style pickle relish you usually get at the summer seafood shack.

For “West Side Story” he wrote “poetic” lyrics that Bernstein loved but that embarrassed their author — yet also produced, as the collaboration matured, lacerating lines that never cloy.