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Definition of "cloyingly" []

  • In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess. (adverb)
  • In an excessively sweet manner. (adverb)

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Use "cloyingly" in a sentence
  • "How could I not like someone who called the cloyingly brooding Angel “Angel cakes”?"
  • "This jumbled exercise by Bulareyaung Pagarlava amounts to a shapeless sampler of miscellaneous moods and shticks, from the cloyingly cute to the utterly arbitrary."
  • "When Mr. Duncan opened a small gelato shop in Washington, D.C., in 2004, he found his engineering and software background rather useless when it came to fixing a vanilla gelato that came out cloyingly sweet, a chocolate gelato that was inexplicably hard and dulce de leche that was too runny."
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