treacly

The writers of aphoristic treacle are no more innocent than the purveyors of sugary drinks.

And we all remember good-but-overpraised songs like If I Had a Hammer and the treacly classic Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Screw those treacly holiday offerings aiming to melt your heart or lift your spirits.

Here was this anti-war holiday demoted to treacly sentimentality.

It avoids that treacly, touchy-feely ground on which Democrats so love to walk.

It was improving and patronising and treacly, and full of information, partly about the lectures, but mostly about himself.

The thick treacly liquid is thus drawn out into a thread of such fineness that a microscope is necessary to find it with.

His eyes sought answer from the river and saw a rowboat rock at anchor on the treacly swells lazily its plastered board.

The glaze is treacly black, often applied unevenly and sometimes pitted with air bubbles.

The sugar in those days was the dark, treacly kind, that left a stain on the floor like blood; it came in casks.