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saccharine

/sak-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn/US // ˈsæk ər ɪn, -əˌrin, -əˌraɪn //UK // (ˈsækəˌraɪn, -ˌriːn) //

糖精,糖类,糖精类,糖精饮料

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the nature of or resembling that of sugar: a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
    • : containing or yielding sugar.
    • : very sweet to the taste; sugary: a saccharine dessert.
    • : cloyingly agreeable or ingratiating: a saccharine personality.
    • : exaggeratedly sweet or sentimental: a saccharine smile; a saccharine song of undying love.

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Examples

  • Especially now that Ted has charmed all the characters who used to be his foils, the tension-less lovefest has veered from sweet to saccharine.

  • The term “family” has come to mean “for kids,” which has come to signify something trite, manipulative and saccharine.

  • What they came up with instead is a modest, lighthearted, comfortingly familiar show that feels more current and less saccharine than most similar Disney titles.

  • Called saccharine, it was popularized initially during sugar shortages caused by the first World War and gained traction during the health crazes of the sixties and seventies.

  • After the cyclamate ban, Tab was forced to reformulate and ended up deciding to use saccharine as its primary sweetener.

  • This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.

  • What's new, then, is the pairing of unhappy truths with sweet kisses and saccharine confessions.

  • The Bachelor had debuted a year earlier, and audiences were ripe for a show that punctured its saccharine fairy-tale storyline.

  • Instead we get article after article of saccharine from people who really should know better.

  • His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.

  • In this case the skin is often removed, that the saccharine matter may the better penetrate the body of the apple.

  • The bread thus retains its sweetness—no waste of its saccharine matter, and no residuum except muriate of soda or common salt.

  • The saccharine fluid produced by the mother must be, then, a sort of milk intended for the nourishment of her young.

  • Yellowish white flesh, crisp and beautiful flavor, from a mingling of the acid and saccharine.

  • Again—a picture of a child, in a halo of innocence, praying at a paternal knee to a fresco of saccharine angels!