Treacly

The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Anglican Church of Canada immersed in treacly conversation « Anglican Samizdat ❋ Unknown (2010)

He threw back his head, cleared his tight throat sonorously, and began, in tones perhaps best described as treacly, to address the seated company, with an intention also towards the larger audience without. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

To describe most of them as "treacly" would be kind (take this one, for example). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Besides, you're positively glowing already and it could get kind of treacly for your friends and colleagues there for a while. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

I suspect that Wood is banging his head against the wall of his own limited view of literature -- in other words, anything that isn't "treacly" or "hysterical realism." ❋ TEV (2005)

Walking into the Midtown Diner with Chuck Barris on Presidents 'Day was like walking onto a television set for the kind of treacly special that Mr. Barris probably never would have produced in his television days: something called maybe Chuck Barris' Holiday Homecoming, or Chuck Barris 'Triumphant Foray From His Apartment. ❋ Unknown (2001)

But Norman says she has rejected countless pitches for "treacly" or "preachy" programming that might prove a turnoff to viewers: "It's not going to be spinach." ❋ Unknown (2009)

At some point somebody wrote some kind of treacly religious pap about the “significance of the folds in the flag” there isn’t any – they’re just folds, and the group has been reciting it at the funerals while they fold the flag. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I loved A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, watching a cynical Natalie Wood learn that Macy's Kris Kringle was truly Santa Claus, tearing up at treacly Hallmark card commercials, and of course every cookie. ❋ Miranda Levenstein (2011)

Note: It may be hard for some of us jaded music lovers to listen to the synth patches, which tend to sound very treacly to our ears. ❋ Michal Shapiro (2011)

I could never quite rid myself of the name associations at once treacly stuff, ill-tasting, eventually poisonous. ❋ Glenn Klopfenstein (2011)

"Frequent flashbacks add color to Jono's adult insecurities, and McLarty's prose remains convincing without crossing into treacly turf." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The article is not as treacly asI thought it might be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are more euphemisms for sex than there are Eskimo words for snow, and every single one of them is more honest and descriptive than that treacly, telltale expression of repression. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

Alex gave Chris a Treacly Trevor and complained it [tasted] like [expired] [crab]. ❋ KurtiSafc (2019)