Cloying

Word CLOYING
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Cloying"

What do we mean by cloying?

To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

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The word "cloying" in example sentences

That she manages all of this without ever becoming cloying is a big achievement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That it covered up rather than exposed, that it was like a phony grin - cloying. ❋ Dave Hingsburger (2006)

Just writing this made me recall the cloying twee-ness of the ❋ Unknown (2008)

I find it kind of cloying, but then I was really, really disappinted in the ending of No More Heroes, too. ❋ SVGL (2009)

Chenault has his semi-literate protagonist delivering words like "cloying" and lines like "in the squared circle of hell." ❋ Robert Battey (2010)

We've got posters above complaining that the speech was "cloying" and then there was Brooks whining that she didn't humanize Barack enough. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Really, liberals are all "cloying" when it comes to Obama? ❋ Unknown (2009)

*** Here's a punny story; during a recent dinner party conversation, there was near unanimous agreement that puns are "cloying" and "annoying" (you'll no doubt be shocked that I was the lone defender). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Amy, I used to wear White Shoulders too, but it got kind of cloying to me after a while. ❋ Marina Geigert (2009)

Grant Robertson The Best Musical Album for Children category goes beyond the kind of cloying, saccharine sounds that please kids too young to know better but drive discerning parents batty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oxenbury’s great gift is her ability to create faces that are simple yet expressive and never dull or cloying, which is just what young children need. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sure, Daryl and Zoe playing Daryl and Zoe -- and reputedly acting out their real-life relationship dramas -- is kind of cloying, but they make a cute screwball couple, with some interesting gender-blur going on. ❋ By Andrew O'Hehir (2010)

There probably will be some kind of cloying make-up bit on the results show. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although Newsweek found the absence of "wailing babies with swollen bellies" refreshing, a review in the Guardian called the series "cloying" and the "No. 1 reason to change the channel." ❋ Unknown (2009)

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