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
I have attempted only the surface, and to express my own first day's uncloyed and unalloyed satisfaction.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
Suffice it to say that my brother had secured us admission to every entertainment, and that we enjoyed our visit as only youth with its keen sensibilities and uncloyed pleasures can.
From The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
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
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
