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Cloying
//ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ//
"Cloying" in a Sentence (8 examples)
She refers to Nostradamus with the rather cloying nickname "Nosty".
Ana's boyfriend is so cloying. He's always trying to kiss her and hold her hand.
As soon as he stepped through the front door, Tom recognised the cloying smell of Mary's perfume.
I found the movie cloying.
I thought it was cloying and trite.
The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?
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