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saccharine
[ sak-er-in, -uh-reen, -uh-rahyn ]
adjective
- of the nature of or resembling that of sugar:
a powdery substance with a saccharine taste.
- containing or yielding sugar.
- very sweet to the taste; sugary:
a saccharine dessert.
- cloyingly agreeable or ingratiating:
a saccharine personality.
- exaggeratedly sweet or sentimental:
a saccharine smile; a saccharine song of undying love.
saccharine
/ ˌsækəˈrɪnɪtɪ; -ˌriːn; ˈsækəˌraɪn /
adjective
- excessively sweet; sugary
a saccharine smile
- of, relating to, of the nature of, or containing sugar or saccharin
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Derived Forms
- ˈsaccharinely, adverb
- saccharinity, noun
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Other Words From
- saccha·rine·ly adverb
- sac·cha·rin·i·ty [sak-, uh, -, rin, -i-tee], noun
- non·saccha·rine adjective noun
- nonsac·cha·rini·ty noun
- un·saccha·rine adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of saccharine1
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Example Sentences
This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.
What's new, then, is the pairing of unhappy truths with sweet kisses and saccharine confessions.
The Bachelor had debuted a year earlier, and audiences were ripe for a show that punctured its saccharine fairy-tale storyline.
Instead we get article after article of saccharine from people who really should know better.
His father was executed in 1942 by a German gendarme after attempting to smuggle a packet of saccharine into the Ghetto.
In this case the skin is often removed, that the saccharine matter may the better penetrate the body of the apple.
The bread thus retains its sweetness—no waste of its saccharine matter, and no residuum except muriate of soda or common salt.
The saccharine fluid produced by the mother must be, then, a sort of milk intended for the nourishment of her young.
Yellowish white flesh, crisp and beautiful flavor, from a mingling of the acid and saccharine.
Again—a picture of a child, in a halo of innocence, praying at a paternal knee to a fresco of saccharine angels!
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