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Meanings of confect in English

Spanish
confeccionar

Make into a confection.

        confeccionar
        Portuguese
        coisa doce
        Catalan
        caramel
        Spanish
        caramelo

        A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.

              coisa doce
              Usage of confect in English
              1
              And the media will not only indulge him, they will confect and contort to position him in the spotlight.
              The Guardian
              2
              It was among several films he confected in the early 1960s.
              The Guardian
              3
              Soon a juggernaut of confected grief is roaring out of control.
              The Guardian
              4
              He is used to people confecting competitions between the two.
              The Guardian
              5
              That's what the confected moral panic about international permits and ute confiscation tells us.
              The Guardian
              6
              She let one of the dark sweets she had confected melt in her mouth.
              The last page
              7
              Nothing at all needed to be confected or changed.
              The Guardian
              8
              I glanced across the two confected women and collected a dutiful smile from each one.
              Woken furies
              9
              I suspect he would have added that I was used to drinking unnatural, confected, chemical wines.
              The Irish Times
              10
              It was confected to the point of absurdity.
              News.com.au
              11
              He is never without verses and musk confects, and sighs to the hazard of his buttons.
              Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
              12
              Instead of a bland confected studio band, Fallon is supported by the hip-hop band the Roots.
              The Guardian
              13
              Too often they were thin and acidic; and whatever flavour they had tended to be very confected.
              The Irish Times
              14
              Confected drama is the best kind.
              News.com.au
              15
              This time last week, I wrote that parts of his speech were "confected to the point of absurdity".
              News.com.au
              16
              It's the starkest example yet that the Vote Leave government is trying to make confected tribal allegiance more important than evidence.
              The Guardian
              Frequent collocations
              Translations for confect
              Confect through the time