cloying's Usage Examples:

cloying sweetness.

Boult conducts this with his customary care, presenting the long lines with a direct approach that avoids any hint of cloying sentimentality.

Toto is so cloying he make me want to vomit.

cloying smell.

cloying brown mud.

cloying sentimentality.

Cloying is a negative description generally given for sweet wines that are not balanced in acid structure, residual sugars and tannins.

A mid-weight comforter is more seasonal and comfortable year round without feeling cloying in the summer or too light in the winter.

cloying stench of death filled the corridor and it was hard not to be sick.

Nieremberg has not the enraptured vision of St Theresa, nor the philosophic significance of Luis de Leon, and the unvarying sweetness of his style is cloying; but he has exaltation, unction, insight, and his book forms no unworthy close to a great literary tradition.

Synonyms:

syrupy, saccharine, sweet, treacly,

Antonyms:

malodorous, unmelodious, sugarless, tasteless, sour,