to cloy

Examples

• All

• Inexpensive or high-end, the majority of wines were cloying, boring, smacking of cherry vanilla.

  Blog text (20)

• The dessert was so sweet that it soon became cloying, making everyone feel sick after just a few bites.

• Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?

  Saltburn (2023)

• The cloying adulation of the little people.

  The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

• And that same cloying Bambi tape over and over.

  Fiction book (1997)

• I thought my food was needy and cloying.

  Chef (2014)

• The first thing I noticed was the familiar cloying smell of lemon furniture polish.

  Fiction book (1995)

• There's a cloying eagerness to him.

  The Professor and the Madman (2019)

• "Now that was very remiss of me," she said, smiling with cloying sweetness.

  Fiction book (1990)

• A cloying, oily odor of cooking wafted upward from the kitchen at the downstairs rear.

  Fiction book (1997)

Synonyms

B

to bore

vsto cloy

15 1.4

To make someone feel tired or not interested by being dull when you speak

does this by offering too much pleasantness rather than through dullness

R

to ruin the mood

vsto cloy

• Informal

3 4.1

Make people feel less happy in a situation

works by overwhelming people with excessive pleasantness, causing sickness or boredom

S

to surfeit

vsto cloy

• Formal

1 9.3

To have too much of something so it causes discomfort or dislike

is specific to too much pleasantness that makes people sick or bored

P

to pall

vsto cloy

1 7.2

To stop being interesting or enjoyable

describes loss of appeal specifically caused by too much pleasantness

Antonyms

S

to satisfy

172 2.0

Make someone happy by meeting their need or wish

How Excessive

to sicken

11 4.1

to cloy

3 9.7

to satiate

9 7.1

to satisfy

172 2.0

to please

216 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology