cloying's Usage Examples:

India Abroad called it a cloyingly familial and touchingly sad melodrama replete with typical Indian social situations.

it"s mockable, it"s silly, it"s cloaked in a cloying miasma of cute, but its off-handed.

81", The New York Times, 3 May 2012; "A cloying vulgarity and coarseness suffuse this book", Carolyn See wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 1986, reviewing.

elaborately", an example of Hellenistic "Middle-class taste [that] was often cloying and hideous, sometimes appealing.

rating of 2 stars out of 5, and said, "While it"s sweet at first, it gets cloyingly virtuous toward the second half.

the acting as "woeful", the soundtrack "cloyingly overbearing", which "deadens each scene", and the films sexual politics "dubious, unironic, and completely.

principles of the first: "being full of your ne"er-cloying sweetness, / To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;" "ne"er" firstly means never, as in the poet.

SIMPLE SYRUP In his schmaltzy new novel, Albom ladles out more cloying sentiment Truman, Cheryl (November.

impressionable "teens, its story is as light as a marshmallow and sometimes as cloyingly sweet.

By the 18th century, this cloyingly ornate language had been abandoned in favour of modern dialect.

moments, but they"re all let down by a script content to settle for cloying smarm".

described Quo Vadis as "not a work of art", but a "crude factory-made oleograph", while Anton Chekhov called Sienkiewicz"s writing "sickeningly cloying.

unfavorable review, commended Dunst for her willingness "to be as silly and cloyingly agreeable as it takes to get through a slapdash film.

Synonyms:

syrupy, saccharine, sweet, treacly,

Antonyms:

malodorous, unmelodious, sugarless, tasteless, sour,