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Meanings of cloying sweetness in English

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Usage of cloying sweetness in English
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They don't have the cloying sweetness of meringues made with white sugar.
Millionaire's women
2
Musketoon's cloying sweetness tried to conceal an alcohol content sufficient to strip paint.
More Than Honor
3
The cloying sweetness scraped her throat raw, but she kept eating.
The poison eaters: and other stories
4
The Halls smelled of Gavin's intestines tangled with a cloying sweetness she couldn't name.
The last page
5
And vinegar is a cloying sweetness compared to her kindest thought or utterance, and--
The Mark of the Beast
6
She was not developing the cloying sweetness of honey.
A Face Illumined
7
We went in through a rear garden full of dark shrubs and the cloying sweetness of honeysuckle.
Gulf coast girl: original title, scorpion reef
8
Naturally, their music and dancing are of a plaintive, almost doleful character, not without a certain cloying sweetness, however.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 / Negligible Tal...
9
Broy was a pungent, slightly rancid drink with a cloying sweetness that coated the drinker's tongue for hours afterward.
The brazen gambit
10
The odor of rose and honeysuckle was drowned in the heavy cloying sweetness of the pendant masses of locust bloom.
Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia
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It's the texture and the cloying sweetness and I cannot imagine a circumstance which will enable me to get over it.
The Guardian
12
There was, indeed, a smile of almost cloying sweetness on Anna Belle's countenance, and she seemed to be seeing pleasing visions.
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
13
The filling relies on melted white chocolate mixed with sour cream to cut some of the cloying sweetness of the chocolate.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
14
I eventually decided that I liked it, but that the honey was a mistake -the wrong kind of faintly cloying sweetness.
The Guardian
15
The Adagio is very fine in its way, but such is its cloying sweetness that one longs for something bracing and active.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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Mingled with the cloying sweetness that was diffusing through the Square, came ever stronger and stronger whiffs of a pungent, goaty stench.
Gather, Darkness!
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Cloying sweetness through the time
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