adjective (formal)
1 (of food, a smell, etc.) so sweet that it is unpleasant
2 using emotion in a very obvious way, so that the result is unpleasant:
His acting was passionate, but never cloying or sentimental.
cloyingly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cloying is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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