cloyingly
- a word derived from cloying.
Example Sentences
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“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Confectionery creativity has made its way back to the United States, where pastry chefs are looking past cloyingly sweet treats smothered in chocolate sauce and ooey-gooey cookies that send you into a sugar coma.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
In concept, “The Nosebleed” might have been cloyingly navel gazing were it not conceived with a generosity of perspective and an unpretentious bid for audience engagement.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Nasri Atweh had an international smash with “Rude,” the kind of cloyingly effective earworm only a true craftsman could have constructed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
He still remembered one foster mother, an older woman who had smelled like cloyingly sweet powder, like someone had pulverized rose petals and sprinkled them on her clothes.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
