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Meanings of saccharine in inglés

Overly sweet.

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        Examples for "cloying"
        Examples for "cloying"
        1
        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
        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
        1
        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
        Usage of saccharine in inglés
        1
        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
        6
        It was a saccharine performance of the schmaltzy pop-soul number Love on Top.
        The Irish Times
        7
        The white hickory you know, yields the purest and sweetest of saccharine juices.
        Letters of a Traveller; Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and A...
        8
        The measurements of nasal peak flow meter and saccharine clearance time are repeated.
        Pubmed
        9
        He had brought an envelope full of Victory Coffee and some saccharine tablets.
        Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
        10
        By leaving off sugar and replacing it by saccharine our correspondent gains nothing.
        The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 / The Independent Health Ma...
        11
        Summer wiggled her fingers and spoke in the same saccharine voice.
        Flash and Bones
        12
        Sweet, this album sure is - like a double-dose of saccharine.
        The Irish Times
        13
        She was about to turn away when Melissa gave Spencer a saccharine smile.
        Pretty Little Secrets
        14
        But even Denman's tone could be saccharine when it came to the WI.
        The Guardian
        15
        Not the fairy-tale brand of love, saccharine and schmaltzy, but the enduring kind.
        Shadow fall
        16
        Don't be fooled by the saccharine emoticons and the pretty colors.
        Wired
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