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expressing feelings of love or kindness in a way that is annoying because it does not seem real: She criticized the cloying sentimentality of the film. The story is heartwarming but never cloying. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
- English (US)
CLOYING meaning: 1. tasting or smelling too sweet and...
- Znaczenie Cloying, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
CLOYING definicja: 1. tasting or smelling too sweet and...
- Pronunciation in English
cloying pronunciation. How to say cloying. Listen to the...
- Traditional
CLOYING translate: 甜得發膩的, 甜得發膩的, 太過多愁善感, 令人膩煩的;膩味的;假惺惺的....
- Cloying in Simplified Chinese
CLOYING translate: 甜得发腻的, 甜得发腻的, 太过多愁善感, 令人腻烦的;腻味的;假惺惺的....
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- English (US)
The meaning of CLOYING is disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess; also : excessively sweet or sentimental. How to use cloying in a sentence. Did you know?
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.
Cloying definition: causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess. See examples of CLOYING used in a sentence.
to become annoying or too much, after seeming pleasant or enjoyable at first: After a while, his prose style starts to cloy. She has a charm and freshness that never cloys. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Inspiring dislike. aversive. disgust. dreaded. gross someone out. ick. it makes me (want to) puke idiom. non-charismatic. puke.
You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental. Her cheap, cloying scent enveloped him. Most TV kids are so cloying. Synonyms: sickly, nauseating, icky [informal], treacly More Synonyms of cloying.
You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental. [...]
