| 释义 |
cloyingcloy‧ing /ˈklɔɪ-ɪŋ/ adjective   cloyingOrigin: 1500-1600 cloy ‘to be cloying’ (16-21 centuries), from accloy ‘to make unable to walk’ (14-18 centuries), from Old French encloer ‘to drive a nail in’, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin clavus ‘nail’ - the cloying smell of cheap perfume
- The novel's plot is interesting, but the dialogue is just too cloying.
- As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat.
- I got up, thick-headed, with a cloying mouth.
- There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes.
- These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent.
- This cloying commercial clamour had the New Zealand public wound up.
► sweet sweet food or drink has had sugar added or contains natural sugars: · Italian oranges are very sweet.· a cup of hot sweet tea ► sugary sweet because a lot of sugar has been added: · Sugary foods are bad for your teeth. ► sickly British English tasting unpleasantly sweet: · The dessert was rather sweet and sickly.· a sickly sweet fruit drink ► cloying tasting or smelling unpleasantly sweet: · I find strawberry and peach drinks too cloying.· the cloying smell of fish oil 1a cloying attitude or quality annoys you because it is too sweet or nice:  cloying sentimentality2cloying food or smells are sweet and make you feel sick: the thick cloying smell of cheap perfume► see thesaurus at sweet—cloyingly adverb |