cloying
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cloy·ing 
[kloi-ing] Pronunciation Key
[kloi-ing] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 1. | causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess: a perfume of cloying sweetness. |
| 2. | overly ingratiating or sentimental. |
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| cloy
(kloi) Pronunciation Key
v. cloyed, cloy·ing, cloys v. tr. To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit. v. intr. To be too filling, rich, or sweet. [Short for obsolete accloy, to clog, from Middle English acloien, from Old French encloer, to drive a nail into, from Medieval Latin inclāvāre : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin clāvāre, to nail (from clāvus, nail).] cloy'ing·ly adv., cloy'ing·ness n. |
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