Cloying

/ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/

verb

  1. To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

  2. To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

  3. To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Synonyms: block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up

adjective

  1. Unpleasantly excessive.

    The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.

  2. Excessively sweet.

Synonyms: oversweet, saccharine, syrupy, treacly, exaggerated

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