cloying

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/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/ English

Definitions

verb

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.

adjective

Unpleasantly excessive.“The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.”
Excessively sweet.

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Synonyms

block block up choke fill fill up stop up stuff stuff up jade nauseate pall sicken surfeit glut gorge sate satiate satisfy

Associated

aftertaste sentimentality sweetness funny weekly rating saying lyrics felt attempts critics score

Rhymes

annoying employing destroying deploying enjoying redeploying boy hung choi hung choy hung destroy ing

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