cloying

Cloying speech or sentiment.

a romantic, rather cloying story.

a rancid, cloying odour that made him nauseous.

Even so being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness, To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;

The cloying smell of artificial flowers filled the room.

Her cloying sweetness can be overwhelming at times.

I can't stand the cloying taste of overly sweet desserts.

The cloying sentimentality of the movie made me cringe.

The cloying music in the elevator was giving me a headache.

She wore a cloying perfume that lingered in the air long after she left.

The cloying dialogue in the play felt forced and insincere.

His cloying attempts at flattery were transparent and unconvincing.

The cloying humidity in the room made it hard to breathe.

The cloying sentimentality of the novel turned off many readers.

By 1602 Ben Jonson was using " fulsome" in the sense of cloying or overdone.

Jake's show of kindness was fake, I could say that he was cloying or syrupy.

80. - I give it a 70. - Raisins are just cloying.

Sweet is positive, cloying is negative.

So I'm not repulsed by your cloying eagerness.

That would be something, better at least than a lifetime of the cramped and cloying restrictions of civilization.

Here every day is a holiday, a jubilee ever sounding with serene enthusiasm, without wear or waste or cloying weariness.

All the elements are kind of tasty, but as a dish it's just very, very cloying and sweet and it hasn't got anything to cut through it, but it was fun.

It had a plush-lined lobby containing silence, tubbed plants, a bored canary in a cage as big as a dog-house, a smell of old carpet dust and the cloying fragrance of gardenias long ago.