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cloying

3 synonyms for cloying, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.

Adj — So much of something that it becomes unpleasant.

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Rare, literary or technical

Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.

Etymology

By surface analysis, formed from cloy and the suffix -ing.

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