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Significats de treacly en anglès

Overly sweet.

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Examples for "cloying"
Examples for "cloying"
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Their flavor was intensely onion-y, sweet yet not cloying, and subtly complex.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
2
Already the air was thick with the sweet cloying stench of decay.
Something from the nightside
3
Nauseous from imbibing cloying endearments and a pound of gilt-wrapped Belgian truffles?
The Irish Times
4
If there were one mark against it, it was the cloying humidity.
All You Need Is Kill
5
The fog clung to his fur like spider's webbing, cloying and cold.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
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The mix of high political sentiment and saccharine karaoke numbers was irresistible.
Altered carbon
2
The film was about racial and ethnic prejudice, but a saccharine version.
News.com.au
3
A little saccharine from the Lord of cool, the prince of dishevelment.
The Irish Times
4
His saccharine tone was just about making Lucy sick to her stomach.
Bake sale murder
5
The heart of the maguey is saccharine and rich in nutriment.
Arizona Sketches
1
Are self-help books syrupy psycho-babble or simple strategies for coping with reality?
The Irish Times
2
Unfortunately, she forgot about the cup of syrupy juice in her hand.
Sushi for one?
3
My body felt heavy and tired, my thoughts grew sluggish and syrupy.
The Name of the Wind
4
Long, syrupy strings of web stretched and snapped as he pulled away.
The Child Thief
5
Pour in the Pernod and boil until reduced to a syrupy consistency.
Cooking for friends
Ús de treacly en anglès
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Some treacly bromide about medical ethics and respect for individuals, no doubt.
Moonburn
2
He watched the treacly pour of the yellow fog thickening about him.
Patsy
3
The duplication appears to have been a deliberate homage, or treacly ancestor-worship.
The Guardian
4
If that makes the show sound treacly or full, it isn't.
The Guardian
5
Mom was telling the truth; the room was treacly with it.
Sister Mine
6
Sidebottom played a hook shot so treacly-slow it's probably still going on right now.
The Guardian
7
She muddles her greens, and her trees get so treacly!
The New Girl at St. Chad's: A Story of School Life
8
The third, the night after a storm, the sand treacly, the water refreshing as champagne.
The Guardian
9
It's very hard talking about this sometimes because it all sounds so sentimental or treacly.
Reuters
10
One of the treacly drawers opened all by itself.
Nanny mcphee and the big bang
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A bit later a treacly smile of a more confidential nature also materialized on his features.
Fatelessness
12
The enormous pressures that exist on the sun must convert even gases into thick treacly fluids.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
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I feel like skipping the wedding spectacle, but Lily makes us watch every treacly second of it.
Soon I will be invincible
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There was none of her treacly volubility.
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
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As thick and treacly as we can.
Cauldron of Ghosts
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A frayed jet of treacly topazcoloured foam shot out of the nozzle, surging all around the Alchemist.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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