cloy
verb (used with object)
to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
uncloyed
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a word derived from
cloy.
Example Sentences
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We have the historians before us, which, though they find us many and delightful exercises, still leave our desire after truth insatiate and uncloyed with pleasure, through which even lies are not without their grace.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
How the flavor got there is a scientific question which she has not considered; but being there, trust the uncloyed palate to find it out!
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
The joys of life lie in us, not in things; and in childhood imagination is so big, its joys so entirely uncloyed.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
The merest glance of our sensitive and uncloyed vision can detect the strength of the relation between two beings, and therefore instantly calculate its duration.
From Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
As it was really an intoxication, a sense of majesty and power quite overwhelming in my then uncloyed condition, I speak of it the more freely.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
