Noncloying

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not cloying. not-comparable

    "He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance."

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"He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance."

Etymology

From non- + cloying.

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