cloying 的定义
- causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess: a perfume of cloying sweetness.
- overly ingratiating or sentimental.
cloying 近义词
sickly sweet
更多cloying例句
- Cut into squares, it’s hard to stop eating — it’s sweet and hearty but not cloying or heavy, and has a soft but structured texture.
- It also adds emotional stakes to the comfortable domesticity of her world, which prevents it from getting cloying.
- Pays d'Oc, France, $19The semi-sweet designation gave me pause, but this wine is well-made in the style and not at all as cloying as some sweet reds that are not as transparent in their labeling.
- The story they embody is a cloying, haphazard, and exposition-heavy mess.
- I find fruity, rather than sweet, is a more reliable guide — after all, ripe fruit tastes sweet, and wines can taste ripe without being cloying.
- And sure, this product—made from French vodka—is cloying in its sweetness.
- After all, The Selfish Giant is one of the most cloying works in literature.
- Cranberry sauce should be sweet but not cloying, and tart without causing pucker and anguish.
- This is not to suggest Ann is cloying or offputtingly perfect.
- He has also drawn remarkable performances from the child actors, who always seem expressive and believable, never cloying.
- The Adagio is very fine in its way, but such is its cloying sweetness that one longs for something bracing and active.
- They were so spicy, so woodsy, so redolent of a fine sweetness that had no cloying element in it.
- The fawning of Society begins to pall after a week's experience of its cloying sweetness.
- He swerved around cloying drifts of snow, he avoided holding ruts, he picked the icy sweeps of the road.
- Following these lines, in his early piece, came others disfigured by cloying touches of the kind too common in his love-scenes.