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Meanings of sickly sweet in English

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Usage of sickly sweet in English
1
Most food, unless it was highly spiced or sickly sweet, was tasteless.
The Sorceress
2
Immediately a sickly sweet odor spread out, causing the physician to retch.
The hangman's daughter
3
An odour, sickly sweet and vaguely familiar, was borne to my nostrils.
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
4
It was sickly sweet but at the same time burned my throat.
Halo
5
How's it goin', Short Straw? Ridley smiled her sickly sweet smile.
Beautiful creatures
6
The air smelled sickly sweet from lemon verbena that simmered on Binnesman's hearth.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
7
It was sickly sweet and then there was the heat from the liquor.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
8
Koeksisters These are so sickly sweet they make my teeth tingle.
The South African
9
The air was heavy and rank with the sickly sweet stench of death.
Hood
10
Drake stood behind him, smelling of some kind of sickly sweet dog shampoo.
Hide and Seek
11
It added new, sickly sweet layers of decay to the stink.
Woken furies
12
There was also a sickly sweet smell, not horrible, not decay, but all-pervading.
Foxglove Summer
13
It was the smell of carrion-thesickly sweet smell of death.
The Beast Within
14
As she passed close to his pacing form a sickly sweet odor enveloped him.
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
15
They still smiled, but it was strained and sickly sweet.
Metro 2033
16
Jonathan looked at Jessica, and Melissa tasted the sickly sweet coupleness passing between them.
Blue noon
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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