| 单词 | cloying |
| 释义 | cloying (once / 15865 pages) adj If you’re a cynic who favors dark, edgy humor and thrillers, you probably find romantic comedies with their hearts, flowers, and sappy happy endings cloying — so sweet and sentimental that they make you want to retch. Whether you’re talking about dessert wine or love notes, cloying means sickeningly sweet. It’s how folks who love espresso feel about Frappuccino. Cloying comes in handy to describe things that are too sweet both literally. "Don’t worry about him trying to kiss you; your cloying perfume is sure to keep him at arm’s length." Or figuratively. "Your incessant flattery and cloying way of hanging on my every word was charming at first, but now I wish you’d go away." WORD FAMILYcloying: cloyingly+/cloy: cloyed, cloying, cloys USAGE EXAMPLESWriting in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “noisy, cloying and altogether marvelous.” New York Times(Dec 24, 2016) Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film “noisy, cloying and altogether marvelous.” New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) But it’s so sweet, and dry in parts, that even the dessert die-hards put down their forks after a cloying bite or two. Washington Post(Nov 22, 2016) adj overly sweet Syn saccharine, syrupy, treacly sweet having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar |
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